NON-SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
- Laroon, The Quarrel
- Hollar, Glastoniensis
- Hollar, Landscape with Herdsmen
- Smith, Mr. Will: Richards
- Hogarth, Southwark Fair
- Smith, The Virgin Mary
- Hogarth, Midnight Modern
- Robinson, Banquet Piece
- att. to Vanderbank, Senesino
- Beauclerk, Street Musicians
- Haward, Mrs. Siddons
- Gillray, Comfort to the Corns
- Cheesman, The Seamstress
- Anonymous, Diamond
- Rowlandson, Gaffers
- Bartolozzi, Miss Farren
- Anonymous, Beatrice Fishing
- Say, Miss Mellon
- Rowlandson, The Poacher
- Smith, Narcissa
- Cruikshank, The Cholic
- Vendramini, Strawberrys, Scarlet
- Cruikshank, A Catalanian PicNic
- Morland, Peasants Resting
- Cruikshank, Sales by Auction!
- Daniell, Joseph Haydn
- Williams, Leap Year
- Finch, In the Park
- Cruikshank, A Consultation
- Anonymous, Duck Shooting
- Heath, A Pleasant Draught
- O’Neill, The Mill
- Cruikshank, Hint to the Blind
- Craig, Trees
- Heath, Blessing of Cheap Cider
- Calvert, The Brook
- Calvert, Cottage and Trees
- Lisle, I’d be a butterfly
- Palmer, Early Plowman
- Leitch, Shepherd
- Whistler, La Vieille aux Loques
- Haden, A Water Meadow
- Whistler, The Brothers
- Cameron, The Palace
- Strang, The Cause of the Poor
- Detmold, Long-Eared Bat
- Detmold, Phoenix
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19. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) after G. B. Williams The Poacher |
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The Poacher
Etching with hand coloring, 1806, unrecorded by Grego, British Museum, B. M. Satires and Walpole Library, 344 x 420 mm. A fine impression on wove paper with good margins, the hand coloring subtly and expertly done but apparently unfinished; the sheet has been folded and torn vertically through the center, well repaired but still visible. The print must be exceedingly rare, as it is apparently unknown to all the standard catalogs. But it is clearly signed in the plate “Etched by Rowlandson” and “G. B. Williams, Esq., del..” (whoever he may have been), and noted again as having been also published by Rowlandson, in 1806 at his known then correct address, No. 1 James [Street], Adelphi. The lack of cataloguing and the unfinished coloring make one suspect that the print was never actually put into circulation. This impression, then, despite its flaw, would be a most desirable rarity.
