Rowlandson Drawings
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Thomas Rowlandson, the razor-sharp satirist of Georgian England, comes brilliantly to life in Rowlandson Drawings, a curated collection that presents the full breadth and vitality of one of Britain's most celebrated draughtsmen. With an unerring eye for the absurdities of human nature, Rowlandson chronicled the raucous taverns, fashionable pleasure gardens, and bustling streets of late 18th- and early 19th-century England, capturing a society caught between elegance and excess. His pen-and-watercolour compositions pulse with energy, caricature, and a warmth that sets him apart from his more acerbic contemporaries. This volume illustrates Rowlandson's extraordinary technical facility — his fluid line work, his instinct for comic composition, and his ability to render an entire social world in a single scene — situating him firmly within the grand tradition of British graphic art alongside Hogarth and Gillray. Scholars and admirers of Regency-era art will find here an indispensable visual record of a society in motion, rendered by a hand that never lost its humanity or its wit. For anyone who has ever wondered what Georgian England truly looked, felt, and laughed like, Rowlandson's drawings offer the most vivid answer imaginable.
Author: John Riely
Format: Paperback
Published: 1977, Yale Center ForBritish Art
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Thomas Rowlandson, the razor-sharp satirist of Georgian England, comes brilliantly to life in Rowlandson Drawings, a curated collection that presents the full breadth and vitality of one of Britain's most celebrated draughtsmen. With an unerring eye for the absurdities of human nature, Rowlandson chronicled the raucous taverns, fashionable pleasure gardens, and bustling streets of late 18th- and early 19th-century England, capturing a society caught between elegance and excess. His pen-and-watercolour compositions pulse with energy, caricature, and a warmth that sets him apart from his more acerbic contemporaries. This volume illustrates Rowlandson's extraordinary technical facility — his fluid line work, his instinct for comic composition, and his ability to render an entire social world in a single scene — situating him firmly within the grand tradition of British graphic art alongside Hogarth and Gillray. Scholars and admirers of Regency-era art will find here an indispensable visual record of a society in motion, rendered by a hand that never lost its humanity or its wit. For anyone who has ever wondered what Georgian England truly looked, felt, and laughed like, Rowlandson's drawings offer the most vivid answer imaginable.