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ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1756-1827)]

Lot 313
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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ID 992921
Lot 313 | ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1756-1827)]
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ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1756-1827)]

[Masqueronians. London: R. Ackermann, 1800.]

‘Six plates designed and etched in Thomas Rowlandson’s boldest and most spirited style, and finished and coloured in almost exact imitation of the original drawings’ (Grego). Thomas Rowlandson was an English artist and caricaturist famed for his social observations and political satire. In this present work, produced by the great print publisher Rudolph Ackermann, a suite of six plates, displaying a total of 18 characters, satires various ‘English’ social types. These include such figures as an undertaker; barber; flower girl; lawyer; soldier; fish-monger; street vendor; doctor; nun; pub owner; fashionable lady; philosopher; fox hunter and writer. Whilst colour-printed books depicting tradesmen were commonplace in the early 19th century, here we see Rowlandson’s singularity in his treatment of the subject emblematically as social satire, the wares or tools of the trade worn as garlands. Bobins IV, 1252; Gee 19.



Oblong folio (315 x 470mm). 6 etchings, each with three portraits, all coloured by a contemporary hand, stitched to left margin as issued (leaves lightly finger-soiled, scattered spotting, heavier on plates 3 and 4). Loosely housed in modern red quarter morocco with gilt lettering to spine, with red marbled paper case.





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Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
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