Preparatory sketch for 'Dr Syntax Sketching the Lake'
Date:
1812
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink with graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches (16.5 x 23.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "But Grizzle in her haste to pass | Lur'd by a tempting tuft of grass | a luckless slip now chanced to take | And sous'd the doctor in the Lake; in pen and brown ink, center right: Slow Brute he cry'd your noisy glee | I do not want to hear - but see...- Tho' by Picturesquith Laws | you're better too with open Jaws"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.3
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
man | sketching | lake | genre subject | dog (animal) | horse (animal)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Thomas Rowlandson - Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England (Block Museum of Art, 2011-01-14 - 2011-03-13)Thomas Rowlandson - Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2011-04-08 - 2011-06-12)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
Publications:
Patricia Phagan, Thomas Rowlandson, pleasures and pursuits in Georgian England , Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. London, 2011, pp. 136-37, no. 50, NJ18 R79 P53 2011 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 7, no. 36, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)