Bartholomew Fair

1807

Thomas Rowlandson

Artist, British, 1756 - 1827

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and stipple with hand coloring on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 24.5 × 35.7 cm (9 5/8 × 14 1/16 in.)
    mount: 32.1 × 50.8 cm (12 5/8 × 20 in.)

  • Accession

    1945.5.1227

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Grego 1880, Vol. II, no. 92

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William Augustus Fraser (1826-1898), London (Lugt 2831)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1880

  • Grego, Joseph. Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures. 2 vols. London: Chattoand Windus, 1880. Reprint. New York: Collector's Editions, 1970.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, above image, at right: 7; in plate, below image, at right: Rowlandson Scul.; in plate, below image, at right: John. Nixon esq.r De.; on mount, in graphite at lower left in later hand: Unique proof / 1667 1808; on mount, in graphite at lower right: Bartholomew Fair Proof GII-92 / (B-12, 402); verso: at center in graphite in later hand: 390

Markings

recto: on mount: William Augustus Fraser (Lugt 2831)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65086532

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