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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) Rowlandson was born in Old Jewry, London; the son of a textile merchant. His first employer was the eminent publisher Rudolph Ackermann, with whom he produced the popular Three Tours of Dr. Syntax. Rowlandson is said to have provided the final echo for French rococo style in England. His satires represent the most familiar facet of his versatile career but he was certainly one of the greatest draughtsmen of the late 18th and 19th Centuries. Full of intentional dichotomy, Rowlandson's drawings often play on the juxtaposition of beauty and ugliness, elegance and the grotesque and his fluent lines and economy of expression made him master of the serious portrait as well as the ridiculous and ensured his enduring popularity and success.

Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)

Hurst stokes, Newport river

Details

Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Hurst stokes, Newport river
inscribed 'Hurst Stokes, Newport River' (upper right)
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour joined on two sheets
4½ x 18½in. (11.5 x 47cm.)

Provenance

Desmond Coke, Sotheby's, 21st July 1931, Lot 110

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