A Comic Actor Rehearsing
Thomas Rowlandson, English, 1756 - 1827
1789
Ink, colored wash on paper
Sight: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm)
Sight: 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Henry C. Cutler, in memory of his wife Hattie M. Cutler, mother of Paul William Cutler, Class of 1928 and John Alden Cutler, Class of 1938 and gift of the Friends of Dartmouth Library
D.955.46.2.2
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: Rowlandson 1789
Course History
ARTH 86, Senior Seminar in Art Historical Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Winter 2013
ENGL 20, Age of Satire, Alysia Garrison, Winter 2014
ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2014
SART 22, Figure Drawing, Brenda Garand, Winter 2015
SART 22, Figure Drawing, Jerry Auten, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
18th-Century English Graphics, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29-December 10, 1978.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 27, 1995-August 20, 1995.
Rococo to Modernism: European Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection and Dartmouth's Alumni, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 30, 2004.
Publication History
John Hayes, Rowlandson Watercolours and Drawings, London, Phaidon Press, 1972, p. 135, pl. 71.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 168-169, ill. p.169, no. 102.
Provenance
Collection of Henry S. Reitlinger (1885-1950); Pultney & Co., London; sold to Professor Herbert Faulkner West (Class of 1922), June 13, 1955; [Henry C. Cutler, Chicago, Illinois, perhaps funds, listed in Friends of the Dartmouth Library 1955 Gifts]; given to present collection, 1955.
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