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Market cart

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Market cart

Date of Production

(circa) 1805

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on wove paper, laid down on artist's mount with wash borders

Dimensions

Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 24.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.82

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Related Works

Copy after Michelangelo's 'Creation of Adam' (Sistine Chapel)

Label Text

This drawing is one of many by Rowlandson featuring carts and country folk. His figures are stereotyped rustic characters, often simply drawn, as here. Rowlandson enlivens the scene with two figure groups, one standing behind a humble cottage and another heading off to market, all seemingly engrossed in conversation.

Notes

The costume of the woman with a bundle of sticks under her arm suggests a date after 1800, and a similar figure with almost identical dress and bonnet, bare-footed and also carrying sticks, appears in 'A Country Scene with Peasants at a Cottage Door' dated 1805 (Boston Public Library) (see Spooner 2005 catalogue, no. 37).

Provenance

William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 11/05/1973-02/06/1973 ...More

English Landscape Drawings [catalogue not found], Rye Art Gallery, England, 1971

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner
Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/04/1968-01/07/1968 ...Less

Literature

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 37
ill. on p. 147

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
cat. no. 15

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 46
ill. (unpag.) ...More

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
cat. no. 58

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968
cat. no. 42 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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