Gray wash with pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 8 11/16 x 6 7/16 inches (22.1 x 16.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: "From Old Jack Bannister 65 Gowen St. | to his Young Friend Wm. Henderson"; in black ink, lower right: "Sketch'd from Mm. Bannister Jun. {?] in his Dressing | Room at Drury Lane- Dec. 23-83--"; inscribed on verso in brown ink, center right: "Wit be the Prologue which adorns his head | and frame his final epilogue when dead"; in graphite, center: "Long and brilliant be the prologue | Long (in coming) [too?] the Epilogue"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Frick Collection, 1990-02-10 - 1990-04-08)Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Frick Art Museum, 1990-04-21 - 1990-06-03)Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1990-06-23 - 1990-08-05)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
Publications:
British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 277, 279, fig. 1, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)John T. Hayes, Rowlandson : watercolours and drawings, Phaidon, London, 1972, ppp. 73, 84, no. 9, pl. 9, NJ18 R79 H39 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Mathew Thomas Payne, Regarding Thomas Rowlandson, 1757-1827, his life, art & acquaintance , Hogarth Arts, London, 2010, pp. 43,68,89, fig. 25, NJ18 R79 P39 2010 (YCBA)The Cunning Eye of Thomas Rowlandson, Apollo, vol.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 277, 279, fig. 1, N1 A54 05:2 + (YCBA) Also available: N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)R. J. B. Walker, Regency portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1985, p. 22 (vol. 1), N1090 A592 (YCBA)