Lot Essay
A convivial and large gathering of couples promenading in the celebrated Tuileries Gardens of Paris in the summer. A larger watercolour of this subject, unfinished, is in the Huntington Museum, San Marino, California (R. Wark, Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, San Marino, 1975, no. 192.) Another more finished version is illustrated in F.G. Roe, 'Rowlandson and Landscape', Old Water-Colour Society Club Annual, XXV, 1947, pp. 21-30.