Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the lower orders.
Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756 – London 1827)
Category
Books
Date
1820
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3246060
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1] leaf, [54] leaves of plates ; 12mo. Pencil note on front free endpaper: "A rare series of 54 Coloured Etchings by Thomas Rowlandson". Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript exhibition caption. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full straight-grained red morocco; single gilt fillet to form a border; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; gilt fillets and rolls on spine; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Rowlandson's sketches of the lower orders'; single gilt fillet on board edges; single gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756 – London 1827), original artist