Smock race
Maker
(artist)
1757-1827
1757-1827
Title
Smock race
Date of Production
1757 - 1827
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 7.5 cm
Width: 14.3 cm
Width: 14.3 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.300
Mode of Acquisition
Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
chemises (underwear)
Notes
This is a design for a print, plate 8, one of 40, in Rowlandson's World in Miniature: consisting of groups of figures, for the illustration of landscape scenery (see Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 14.49.2(8). There is another drawing of a smock race by Rowlandson in the British Museum (1876,0708.8), undated, which was printed in reverse by Tegg in 1811.
Provenance
F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£1); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
catalogue untraced, Forty Hall, Enfield, 1970
A loan exhibition of important drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, Ellis & Smith's Galleries, London, 06/05/1948-29/05/1948
A loan exhibition of important drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, Ellis & Smith's Galleries, London, 06/05/1948-29/05/1948
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 42
p. 42
Inscriptions
Watermark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
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