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Richardson's show
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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Richardson's show
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, on the artist's original pen and wash-line mount
with signature and dated 'Rowlandson 1811' (lower right, on the mount overmounted) and with inscription 'A Country Fair/Richardson's Show' (on an old label attached to the backboard)
5 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. (13.6 x 21.2 cm.)
Richardson's show
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, on the artist's original pen and wash-line mount
with signature and dated 'Rowlandson 1811' (lower right, on the mount overmounted) and with inscription 'A Country Fair/Richardson's Show' (on an old label attached to the backboard)
5 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. (13.6 x 21.2 cm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 15 July 1999, lot 39, when acquired by the present owner.
Literature
J. Grego, Rowlandson the Caricaturist, London, 1880, vol. II, p. 313.
Engraved
R. Ackermann, 1816, Rowlandson's World in Miniature.
Special notice
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