Rooks waiting for pigeons

Rooks waiting for pigeons

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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Rooks waiting for Pigeons

Signed lower right: Rowlandson and inscribed with title lower left
Pen and grey ink and watercolour over traces of pencil on original washline mount
10.9 by 16.3 cm., 4 1/4 by 6 1/4 in.

This is probably the drawing of this title recorded in the collection of W.T.B. Ashley in 1880 (see Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the Caricaturist, 1880, p.417.