The Board Game
The Board Game
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The Board GamePen and ink and watercolour over pencil29.2 by 21.6 cm., 11 ½ by 8 ½ in.Provenance:G.W. Bevan, his sale, Christie's, 13th December 1902, lot 136, bt. Drenden for 3gns;The Executors of Edmund Drenden, their sale, Christie's, 9th April 1904, lot 45 (part), bt. Renton for 4 ½ gns;Anonymous sale, Christie's, 24th March 1987, lot 59 as `The Gamblers';Private collection, USA;Private collection, London Exhibited:London, Andrew Clayton-Payne, An Exhibition of Watercolours by Thomas Rowlandson, 19th November to 2nd December 1998, no.11A version of this composition depicting a game of chess is in the Yale Center for British Art entitled `Checkmate' (B1975.4.915).){kind=link}
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
The Board Game
Pen and ink and watercolour over pencil
29.2 by 21.6 cm., 11 ½ by 8 ½ in.
Provenance:
G.W. Bevan, his sale, Christie's, 13th December 1902, lot 136, bt. Drenden for 3gns;
The Executors of Edmund Drenden, their sale, Christie's, 9th April 1904, lot 45 (part), bt. Renton for 4 ½ gns;
Anonymous sale, Christie's, 24th March 1987, lot 59 as `The Gamblers';
Private collection, USA;
Private collection, London
Exhibited:
London, Andrew Clayton-Payne, An Exhibition of Watercolours by Thomas Rowlandson, 19th November to 2nd December 1998, no.11
A version of this composition depicting a game of chess is in the Yale Center for British Art entitled `Checkmate' (B1975.4.915).