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拍品 183
  • 183

THOMAS ROWLANDSON | The Glow Worm Society

估價
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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描述

  • Circle of Thomas Rowlandson
  • The Glow Worm Society
  • Pen and brown ink and watercolour;signed and dated, lower right: Rowlandson 1817., and inscribed, lower left as titled, further inscribed, on the portrait: Joe Miller
  • 193 by 232 mm

出版

With Ackermann, London;
Private Collection, U.S.A.

拍品資料及來源

By inscribing this watercolour The Glow Worm Society, Rowlandson was not referring to a London dining club, but instead to the term Glow Worm which, in late Georgian Britain, was understood to mean: 'a proud foole or an arrant asse.' We are grateful to Neil Jeffares for his help when cataloguing this lot.