Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Title:
A Fair in the Country
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and red-brown, brown, and gray ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/8 x 9 5/16 inches (13.7 x 23.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in red ink, lower left: "LsD", (L.S. Deglatigny - Lugt 1768a); in graphite, verso, center: "The Cattle Fair"; in graphite, verso, lower right: "Hx"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.354
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
outside | children | men | women | county | bowls (tableware) | plates (dishes) | chairs | genre subject | cattle | crowd | donkey | pigs | horse (animal) | fair
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 373, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5754