Review of Light Horse Volunteers on Wimbledon Common
Date:
1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 13/16 x 16 5/16 inches (24.9 x 41.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in pen and yellow-brown ink, lower left: "Rowlandson"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.300
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
military, the | genre subject | volunteers | carriages | exercises | horses (animals) | uniforms, military | crowd
Associated Places:
Greater London | Europe | England | United Kingdom | Wimbledon
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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 T. Hayes, Rowlandson : watercolours and drawings, Phaidon, London, 1972, pp. 36-37, 177, fig. 26, NJ18 R79 H39 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Simon Schama, Rowlandson in the Round, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue no. 3963, March 10, 1978, p. 282, Film S748 (SML) Also available Online in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS)