Somerset | Bath and Northeast Somerset | England | Bath | United Kingdom | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)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:
John Baskett, The drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection, Brandywine Press, New York, 1978, p. 74, no. 297, NJ18 .R79 B38 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, pp. 281, 283, fig. 16, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the caricaturist : a selection from his works, with annotated descriptions of his famous caricatures and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries, Chatto & Windus, London, 1880, Vol. 1, pp. 335-36, NJ18 .R79 G73 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)John T. Hayes, The art of Thomas Rowlandson, Art Services International, Alexandria, Va., 1990, pp. 154-55, no. 63, NJ18 .R79 H375 1990 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)John Riely, Rowlandson drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 34, no. 44, NJ18 .R79 R68 (LC) (YCBA)Malcolm C. Salaman, British book illustrations yesterday and to-day, The Studio, London, 1923, pp. 12-13, 45, NC960 .S3 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)The Cunning Eye of Thomas Rowlandson, Apollo, vol.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 281, 283, fig. 18, N1 A54 05:2 + (YCBA) Also available: N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 56-58, no. 22, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
This view of Bath belongs to a series of satirical drawings of the fashionable spa town that Rowlandson made in preparation for The Comforts of Bath, a set of twelve aquatints published in 1798. All expose an unruly underside to the supposedly polite lifestyle of Bath. In this example Rowlandson focuses on a less than attentive concert audience. While a gentleman in red tries to listen to the music, two women in the front row vie for his attention. At the back a lecherous old man attempts to charm an uninterested young woman; others are clearly deep in conversation, oblivious to the soprano’s singing; while at the front a drunken man has lost consciousness. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)