Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Title:
Dr. Syntax Sketching the Lake
Date:
1812
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and red ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/8 x 7 5/16 inches (13.7 x 18.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "The Doctor Arrives at the Lake | in Foggy Weather"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.682
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
genre subject | pail | umbrellas | figures | lake | man | paper (fiber product) | sketching | elderly | boy | 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)
Publications:
Douglas Fordham, Aquatint Worlds : Travel, Print, and Empire 1770-1820, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven and London, 2019, p. 237, fig. 193, NE2230 .F674 2019 (LC) Oversize

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, v.1: p. 205, no. 419, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

Patricia Phagan, Thomas Rowlandson, pleasures and pursuits in Georgian England , Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. London, 2011, pp. 138-39, no. 51, NJ18 R79 P53 2011 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5631