drawing
- Museum number
- 2003,0601.56
- Description
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Satirical head and shoulders of woman in a low-cut dress and feathered hat letting a glass of wine spill as she looks at the viewer.
Watercolour, corners truncated, watermark visible
- Production date
- 1804-1824
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 millimetres
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Width: 128 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Labels on back of original frame:
1958, Southampton Art Gallery, no. 817 (date received 18.7.58)
ND, Lords Gallery
See 'Boom Boom Cluster: The David Brown Bequest', Southampton City Art Gallery, 2004 p.100 where David Brown is quoted as saying that the first book on art he bought was on Rowlandson, by Bernard Faulk and "I started buying art in 1958. I was taken to various galleries and the one I was taken to most, and bought things from, was the Lord's Gallery in St Johns Wood run by a man called Philip Granville. I think I bought from him a watercolour by Rowlandson, of a woman with a wine glass, which looks like either the artist was drunk, or the lady was drunk when he painted it. I bought that for sentimental reasons, because the first art book I bought when I was a veterinary scientist was on Rowlandson".
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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ND, Lords Gallery, London
1958, Southampton Art Gallery, no. 817
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
Reitlinger stamp on former historic mount (now removed). Tegg was at 111 Cheapside from 1804-24.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2003,0601.56
