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ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827)

Rowlandson-97606 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) Dinghy attempting a stormy landing. Pencil. Circa 1800. Exhibited: Leger Galleries, 1989; Lowell Libson Ltd, cat.no.49, ‘Beauty and the Beast … works by Thomas Rowlandson’, 2007. 8.5x12 inches. Framed: 18.5x22 inches. 
Rowlandson-97093 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) The Money Lenders. Ink and watercolour. Signed and dated, 1807. Ill. And lit: ‘Rowlandson’, J.Grego, 1880, vol.ii, p.53. pp.233-5. 11x8.5 inches.
Rowlandson-98429 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1757-1827) ‘A Cure for the Simple’: Trepanning. Ink and watercolour. Inscribed. 8.5x7 inches.
Rowlandson-98323 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) Youth and Age – Envy. Ink and watercolour. Circa 1810. 9x7 inches.
Rowlandson-98607 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) ‘The Pop Shop’. Ink and watercolour. Inscribed ‘Uncle Gripe can now stand half a Crown for my smock’. Signed and dated, 1807. 11x9 inches.
Rowlandson-98503 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1757-1827) ‘Count Ugolino and his Children in the Dungeon’. Ink and watercolour version of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ ‘Count Ugolino and his Children in the Dungeon’ Exh: R.A. 1773, National Trust Collection at Knole. ‘Signed’. 11x14.75 inches.
rowlandson-87909web ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) On the banks of the Thames. Ink and watercolour with original wash mount. 6×9 inches. Signed and dated, 1796.
rowlandson-88989 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) A Gossip’s reward. Ink and watercolour. Circa 1810. 10x8.5 inches.
rowlandson-89611 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) On the river, possibly the Thames near Twickenham. Pen, brush and ink. Ex. Coll: Sir Eric Maclagan. 8x11 inches. Framed: 15x18 inches.
rowlandson-89614 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) The beauty of music. Pencil, ink and watercolour. Signed, or inscribed. 4.5x7.25 inches.
rowlandson-89999 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) ‘The Cloisters’; Dr Syntax in search of the picturesque. Ink and watercolour. Circa 1809. Signed. Exhibited: Agnews (No.12559) 4.25x7.25 inches.
rowlandson-90736 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) A fisherman’s family. Pen, ink and watercolour. 6x8.25 inches.
rowlandson-90748 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) ‘Johnny Cobbed – Watch! – Watch!’. Pen and ink. Inscribed. To illustrate Johnny Newsome goes to sea. Ex. Coll: L. G. Duke (by repute). 4.25x7 inches.
rowlandson-91150_0 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) A family meal. Ink and watercolour. Signed and dated, 1806. 6x9 inches.
Rowlandson-91815 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) Leaving an Inn; possibly Bermondsey High Street with the Abbey Gates in the background. Ink and watercolour. Circa 1810. 5.25x9 inches.
Rowlandson-92011 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) ‘Dust-Ho’. Ink and watercolour. Signed, inscribed and dated, 1809. Ex. Coll: Guy Harvey-Samuel. Sold with a related etching - CLICK HERE TO VIEW. 6x9 inches. Framed: 14x17 inches.
rowlandson-k06662 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) London. Ferry at ‘Chelsea Reatch (sic)’. Ink and watercolour. Inscribed by another hand. 11.5x9.5 inches. Framed: 16x19 inches.
Rowlandson-92190 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) Dr Syntax sketching amongst tourists in an Abbey. Ink and watercolour. Circa 1810. 5x8 inches. Framed: 13x15 inches.
Rowlandson-K ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) The Kings Head, Roehampton (still standing and recognisable). Large ink and watercolour. Circa 1810. 11x17 inches. Framed: 25x28 inches.
Rowlandson-93674 50. ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) The lucky baby. Pencil, ink and watercolour. Signed. Ex. Collection: L.G. Duke (the great collector and Early British watercolours). 4.25x3.3 inches.
Rowlandson-93675 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) The water’s edge; foreshore life. Pencil, ink and sepia wash. 4.25x6.75 inches.
Rowlandson-93907 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) The Mitre Inn, Paddington Canal. Ink and watercolour. One of at least four versions of this scene. One of the two V and A versions is signed and dated, 1812. 7x10.5 inches. Framed: 14x17 inches.
Rowlandson-94526 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) A busy day on the high street, Barnet, Middlesex, with the east window of St John the Baptist's church in view. Ink and watercolour. Inscribed in another hand. 10.75x17 inches. Framed: 18.5x24.25 inches.
Rowlandson-96497 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) Making Music. Pen, brush, ink and watercolour. 8.25x7.75 inches.
Rowlandson-96792 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) A Jealous Scene. Ink and watercolour. 4.75x7.75 inches.
Rowlandson-93750 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) ‘The Comforts of High Living’. Pen, ink and watercolour. Signed. S. W. Fores published an etching of the subject, 16th December 1794. Also published by Ackermann in 1807 as ‘Falstaff’s Wedding Night’. Provenance: Peter Rankin, from Andrew Edmunds. 4.5x7.25 inches. Framed: 9x11.5 inches.
Rowlandson-94029 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1757-1827) Dr Syntax has an accident at the Club. Ink and watercolour. 5.5x9.5 inches. £3750.
Rowlandson-96225 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) ‘Shepherd and Shepherdesses’. Ink and watercolour. Exhibited: Agnews (no.31792) 6.5x9.25 inches. Framed: 13.25x15.5 inches.
Rowlandson-96224 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) A farmhouse kitchen. Pen, brush and ink. 5.75x7.75 inches. Framed: 12.25x13.5 inches.
Rowlandson-95294 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) Ox cart crossing a stone bridge. Pen, brush and ink. Signed and dated, 1802. Exhibited: Palser Gallery. 6x9.25 inches.
Rowlandson-96213 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) A Pub brawl. Ink and watercolour. Circa 1810. 6.5x9.25 inches. Framed: 14.5x16.75 inches.
Rowlandson-95295 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) Children in a farmyard. Pen and ink. 7x9 inches.
Rowlandson-97125 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) 
‘There is a pleasure in Madness that none but a Madman knows’ (Dryden) 
Ink and watercolour. Inscribed verso. 
9.5x7.5 inches.
Rowlandson-93086 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) ‘Dr Grant / - Those who cannot write, and those who can / All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a Man./ Pope’. Ink and watercolour. Inscribed by the artist. 7.5x5 inches.
Rowlandson-95199 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) The Swing. Ink and watercolour. Provenance: Sotheby’s 12.7 1984 4.5x7.25 inches.
Rowlandson-95296 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) The Stable. Ink and wash. Circa 1800. 7.25x10.25 inches.
Rowlandson-97016 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) 
French Prisoners under Guard. 
Ink and watercolour. 1794. 
6x9 inches. 

Rowlandson and Henry Angelo (1756-1835) visited Portsmouth in 1794 to see Lord Howe return from his 'Glorious 1st of June' victory. ' ... The morning following we saw, on the Gosport side, the landing of the French prisoners, numbers of different divisions filing off to the different stations allotted them. As for the wounded, previous to their quitting the boats, carts were placed alongside, and when filled, on the smack of the whip, were ordered to proceed. The sudden jolting made their groans appalling, and must have occasioned the wounds of many to produce an immediate haemorrhage...' (H. Angelo, Reminiscences, Vol. II, p.292).
Rowlandson-K06582 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) ‘Kinsun Cove, Cornwall’; probably Kynance Cove. Ink and watercolour. Inscribed and signed. 5.75x9.25 inches. Framed: 15x18 inches.
Rowlandson-96884 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) Revellers outside a Village Inn. Pencil with blue/grey watercolour wash. Signed and dated, 1804. Ex.Collection: Major Leonard Dent D.S.O. Exhibited: no.16, ‘Rowlandson: Drawings from Town and Country’, Reading Museum and Art Gallery. Spink-Leger. Lit: p.7 ‘Hillfields: Notes on the Contents’, Colonel Leonard Dent, 1972. Provenance: lot 10, ‘The Dent Collection of watercolours and Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson’, Christies, 10th July 1984. ?Sothebys, 18th November, 1953 (? to Dent) 12.75x18 inches. Framed: 22x26.5 inches
Rowlandson-93894 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) Character study. Ink and watercolour. 3.5x3 inches.
Rowlandson- ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) A useful cupboard. Ink and watercolour. 4.25x6.5 inches
Rowlandson-95010 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) The vegetable seller. Pen, brush and ink. Later inscribed. 5x6.25 inches.
Rowlandson-94134 ROWLANDSON Thomas (1757-1827) Courting Couple. Pen and ink. Ex. Coll: Ronald Searle. 4x6 inches.