Thomas Rowlandson
Port Isaac, Cornwall

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Artist Thomas Rowlandson British, 1756–1827

CultureBritish

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Port Isaac, Cornwall

Datec. 1790

Place depictedPort Isaac, United Kingdom

MediumWatercolor and pen and ink over graphite on wove paper with artist’s mount with washline border

DimensionsSheet: 11 1/2 × 18 in. (29.2 × 45.7 cm)

Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Valerie Greiner

Object number2018.233

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Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceJoseph Grego (1843-1908)(1); T. Hastings; Dr W. H. Hastings; [Walker Galleries, London, at least by 1949-1954]; Mr & Mrs Hugh B. Cox; Private collection, UK to 2003; Private collection; [Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker, Ltd], by 2017; purchased by MFAH, 2018.

(1)Joseph Grego was an art collector, journalist, and author in the late 19th century. Born in London, Grego invented the “Colour Photo-Copier,” a system of reproducing 18th-century color prints as facsimiles. He was the Director of photo-engravers Carl Hentschel Ltd, 1899-1908 and Directo of Kegan Paul & Co. from 1903 and The Graphic Company, until his death. Grego also was a writer and collector of the works of James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, George Morland, Charles Dickens, and George Cruikshank. He edited a book on James Gillray’s works (1873) and Rowlandson the Caricaturist (1880). In 1903, he published Cruickshank’s Water Colours. Grego also was an art dealer, lending his prints and drawings to museum exhibitions and organized a few exhibitions such as “English Humourists in Art Exhibition (Royal Institute, Piccadilly, 1889. See Sidney Lee, ed., “Joseph Grego,” Dictionary of National Biography (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1912).

Exhibition History"British Painting from Hogarth to Turner, 1730–1850," National Museum, Stockholm, 1950. (Exhibited as A Port in Cornwall).

"Thomas Rowlandson; Watercolours and prints from stock," Lowell Libson Ltd, London, 2007.
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