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Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756-1827)
Lot 113

Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756-1827)

Couples promenading in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris

Closed3 July 2018

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Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756-1827)
Couples promenading in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris
with inscription 'The Tuilleries' (lower right)
pencil, pen and brown ink, brown wash
7 x 11 1/8 in. (17.8 x 28.3 cm.)

Sir Eldred Hitchcock (†); Sotheby's, London, 24 February 1960, lot 7 (£130 to S. & R. Rosenberg).

Specialist note

A convivial and large gathering of couples promenading in the celebrated Tuileries Gardens of Paris in the summer. A larger watercolour of this subject, unfinished, is in the Huntington Museum, San Marino, California (R. Wark, Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, San Marino, 1975, no. 192.) Another more finished version is illustrated in F.G. Roe, 'Rowlandson and Landscape', Old Water-Colour Society Club Annual, XXV, 1947, pp. 21-30.