Drawings and Watercolors of Thomas Rowlandson

detail of painting depicting four military musicians playing wind instruments surrounding two stacked drums.

At a Glance

Exhibition
Drawings and Watercolors of Thomas Rowlandson
Dates
February 6, 1990 to April 8, 1990
Museum
The Frick Collection

1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021

Listing type
Past Exhibitions
Description

A loan exhibition of watercolors and drawings by the celebrated eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson. The eighty-four works in this exhibition were drawn from forty international collections both public and private. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) was a colorful personality and a versatile and prolific artist best known for portraying aristocrats and the English middle class with an eye for comic incident .