The Boating Party

The Boating Party

Category
Reference

3087

Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
The Boating Party

Signed and dated lower right:
Rowlandson 1823
Pen and grey ink and watercolour over touches of pencil
14.8 by 24cm., 5 ¾ by 9 ½ in.

Provenance:
With Richard Green and Frank Sabin Galleries, where bought by the present owner

Another version of this watercolour, recorded in the Nettlefold collection, is entitled: `Pope's Villa, Twickenham: The Outing' (see C. Reginald Grundy,
A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the collection of Frederick John Nettlefold', 1937, vol. III). This subject was published in reverse as plate 35 in `World in Miniature' by R. Ackermann in 1817.