Figures on a Country Lane by a Village
Figures on a Country Lane by a Village
 Figures on a Country Lane by a VillageBears signature lower rightPen and brown and grey ink and watercolour over touches of pencil27.9 by 38.2cm., 10 ¾ by 15 in.Provenance: With Leger Galleries, London, where bought by the present owner, March 1981Exhibited: London, The Leger Galleries, An Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, 2nd - 27th February 1981, no. 22Literature: The Leger Galleries, An Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), 1981, no. 22, ill. This may be a Cornish view. The row of cottages is similar to a drawing by Rowlandson in the Yale Center for British Art titled `View of the Church and Village of St Kew or St Cue, Cornwall' (see Matthew Payne and James Payne, Regarding Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), 2010, p.2.49, ill. fig. 104). Rowlandson regularly visited Hengar in Cornwall where his patron and friend Mathew Michell had a house.){kind=link}
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Figures on a Country Lane by a Village
Bears signature lower right
Pen and brown and grey ink and watercolour over touches of pencil
27.9 by 38.2cm., 10 ¾ by 15 in.
Provenance:
With Leger Galleries, London, where bought by the present owner, March 1981
Exhibited:
London, The Leger Galleries, An Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, 2nd - 27th February 1981, no. 22
Literature:
The Leger Galleries, An Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), 1981, no. 22, ill.
This may be a Cornish view. The row of cottages is similar to a drawing by Rowlandson in the Yale Center for British Art titled `View of the Church and Village of St Kew or St Cue, Cornwall' (see Matthew Payne and James Payne, Regarding Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), 2010, p.2.49, ill. fig. 104). Rowlandson regularly visited Hengar in Cornwall where his patron and friend Mathew Michell had a house.