Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)

Ladies of easy virtue mounting a wagon outside an inn

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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Ladies of easy virtue mounting a wagon outside an inn
pencil, grey and red ink and watercolour, unframed
5 7/8 x 9½ in. (14.8 x 24.3 cm.)
Provenance
Gilbert Davies (L. 757a).
with Frost and Reed, London, 24 February 1947, where purchased by a forebear of the present owner.
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Lot Essay

The same subject, entitled Kendal Flying Wagon, in reverse was drawn and etched by Rowlandson in his World in Miniature, published in eight monthly parts, 1816 by Ackermann, pl. 26 (see S.H. Pavière, 'On the Prints of Thomas Rowlandson', The Antique Collector, 26 September 1931, p. 489).

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