Paris Diligence

1810

Thomas Rowlandson

Associated Names
Thomas Rowlandson

Artist, British, 1756 - 1827

The image depicts a busy street scene with a variety of interactions and figures. The perspective shows the street extending into the distance with buildings lining the horizon. The style is detailed with fine lines and colored with vibrant greens, reds, yellows, and blues contrasted against paler tones. There is a stagecoach with animated figures, animals, drivers in green uniforms with white horses, and more figures and buildings in the background. The scene conveys a sense of motion and activity.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and stipple with hand coloring on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 25.8 × 38.2 cm (10 3/16 × 15 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1945.5.1351

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Grego 1880, Vol. II, no. 189

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William Augustus Fraser (1826-1898), London (Lugt 2831)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1880

  • Grego, Joseph. Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures. 2 vols. London: Chattoand Windus, 1880. Reprint. New York: Collector's Editions, 1970.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, at lower left: Rowlandson Del.; in plate, above image, at right: 19; in plate, below image, at left: Pub. by T. Tegg, 111, Cheapside, London; in plate, below image, at center: PARIS DILLIGENCE.; in plate, below image, at right: Etch'd by Rowlandson; on mount in graphite at lower left in later hand: No. 935 2nd state; on mount in graphite at lower right in later hand: G II - 189; verso: at center in graphite in later hand: 355

Markings

recto: on mount: William Augustus Fraser (Lugt 2831); verso: none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65086909

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