Preview
Creation Date
1821 (original)
Geography
England
Culture
English
Medium
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
Dimensions
With frame: 13 5/16 × 15 3/4 × 5/8 in. (33.8 × 40 × 1.5 cm)
Credit Line
Long-term Loan from the Estate of Boris Blick, 2015
Accession Number
2015.36
Provenance
According to Professor Sarah Blick, this print was purchased by Boris Blick from an antique dealer in Akron, Ohio, likely Stagecoach Antiques (now closed).
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
Beneath image, lower left: "Drawn by Rowlandson."
In bottom margin, lower center: "THE ARTIST'S ROOM."
Creator Biography
Thomas Rowlandson, English, 1757–1827 (artist).
William Combe, English, 1742–1823 (writer).
Description
Three gentlemen and a lady sit at a round table in the center of the room talking, drinking, and admiring a drawing. A dog lays in the foreground next to an open box, armchair, and footstool placed in front of an easel with an unfinished work. The walls of the room are decorated with the impressions of sculptures and vibrant curtains, with a large window on the right of the composition that looks out to a green, hilly landscape.
From The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of a Wife by William Combe, illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson; published 1821, it is the final of three books written as comic poems satirizing William Gilpin and his promotion of the picturesque. These books have been digitized by The Public Domain Review, where a version of this print within The Third Tour can be seen on page 199.