Private collection, UK
An Artist Travelling in Wales
- Pen and ink and watercolour over touches of pencil
On the artist’s original wash line mount - 11 1/16 × 11 1/16 inches · 282 × 282 mm
- Engraved by H. Merke in colour aquatint, published by Rudolph Ackermann, 10th February 1799 (plate size: 267 x 325 mm)
Collections
- Charles Keene, d. 1891;
- Private collection, England to c. 1947;
- Leger Galleries;
- Sir William Worsley, Hovingham Hall, acquired 1948;
- Oliver Worsley, by descent to 2002;
- Lowell Libson Ltd;
- Private collection, UK acquired from the above in 2002;
- And by descent, to 2019
Exhibitions
- London, Leger Galleries, Early English Watercolour Drawings, December 1947 – January 1948, no. 95;
- London, Lowell Libson Ltd, Beauty & the Beast: a loan exhibition of Rowlandson’s works from British private collections, exhibition catalogue, 2007, no. 42
Literature
- British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, 11 volumes, 1870-1954, vol. VII, no. 9445, p. 584 (for a discussion of the print);
- Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the Caricaturist, 1880. vol. I, pp. 360-62 (for a discussion of the print);
- Lowell Libson, Hugh Belsey, John Baskett, Beauty & the Beast: a loan exhibition of Rowlandson’s works from British private collections, exhibition catalogue, 2007, pp. 42-3;
- Nadine Orenstein, Constance C. McPhee Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine, exhibition catalogue.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven and London, 2011, entry by Constance McPhee, cat. no. 97, pp. 130-131, repr., (for a discussion of the print).