The Woolpack Inn, Hungerford, Berkshire

Details

Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
The Woolpack Inn, Hungerford, Berkshire
pencil, pen and ink and brown and grey wash on buff paper
9 1/8 x 12 7/8 in. (23.1 x 32.8 cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 11 November 1997, lot 43.
with Spink-Leger, London.

Exhibited

London, Spink-Leger, British Watercolours and Drawings, 12 November-12 December 1998, no. 21.

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Lot Essay

Another version of the present watercolour, signed and dated 'Rowlandson 1796' is in the Paul Mellon Collection, see J. Baskett and D. Snelgrove, Rowlandson's Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, London, 1977, no. 29, illustrated in colour. The basic landscape is almost identical, with arched trees framing the watercolour. Whereas the watercolour in the Paul Mellon Collection depicts a narrowly avoided collision between a horse-drawn cart and a lady and gentleman in a gig, the present watercolour shows the inn at a slightly greater distance, with hounds and huntsmen in the foreground.

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