ID 991583 
Lot 109  | THOMAS ROWLANDSON (LONDON 1756-1827)
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000 
A group of ten drawings, seven illustrations for The Adventures of Roderick Random, and three unpublished illustrations for The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams: ‘Mutual defiance of Capt. Weazel and Miss Jenny Ramper’; ‘The Reading of the Will of Lieut. Rowling’s (Bowling’s) Brother’; ‘Feast after the Manner of the Ancients’; ‘Direful Consequences of Clinker’s Awkwardness’; ‘Humphrey Clinker in prison preaching to the Felons’; ‘The Marriage of Lieut Lumbago (?Lismahago) and Miss Tabitha etc’;‘Tom Jones rescues Miss Waters from the violence of Northerton (unpublished version)’; and three Unpublished drawings for ‘Joseph Andrews'
each with inscription as title (on the verso of the mount), and the first further inscribed
‘Scene in Roderic Random’ on the mount
all pencil, pen and ink and watercolor on the artist’s original mounts
4 1/4 x 6 3/8 in. (10.8 x 16 cm); and slightly smaller
(10)
Provenance
all William Hartmann Woodin.
all with Richard Green, London.
Literature
i) T. Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London, 1793, vol. 1, p. 58.
ii) T. Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London, 1793, vol. 1, p. 16.
iii) T. Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London, 1793, vol. 2, p. 63.
iv) T. Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London, 1793, vol. 2, p. 96.
v) T. Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London, 1793, vol. 1, p. 175.
vi) T. Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London, 1793, vol. 2, p. 199.
vii) T. Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London, 1793, vol. 2, p. 164.
Special notice
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| Artist: | Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827) | 
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor | 
| Genre: | Genre art | 
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom | 
| Artist: | Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827) | 
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor | 
| Genre: | Genre art | 
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom | 
| Address of auction | 
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