John Rosedale Mariner. Exhibitor at the hall of Greenwich hospital / etched & pub. by T Rowlandson.

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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827
John Rosedale Mariner. Exhibitor at the hall of Greenwich hospital / etched & pub. by T Rowlandson.
hand colored etching
image: 203 x 150 mm; sheet: 238 x 173 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1918
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[London] : Etched and Pubd by T. Rowlandson April 26. 1807 N I James St Adelphi, 1807 April 26.
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Lettered with title, artist's name and publication line 'Etched and Pubd by T. Rowlandson April 26. 1807 N I James St Adelphi.'
After John Nixon.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.

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An old sailor with a long pigtail, and wearing an old-fashioned blue coat with gold lace, points with a pointer at a large decoration by Thornhill. He leans against an iron railing, standing on raised stone flags. A corner of the decoration is shown, swirling allegorical figures, nude and partly draped. On the right is the lower left. corner of a large heavily framed picture: a man in Roman draperies, and a woman in longer draperies. Two sightseers and a small boy gaze at the wall, the man yawning cavernously. The guide says: "Here is Prince George of Denmark, and in & the Prospective a View of St Pauls London, Sr James Thornhill in the Wig &&&'".

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