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The Mutual Attempt to Catch a Likeness

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Description: The Mutual Attempt to Catch a Likeness
TitleThe Mutual Attempt to Catch a Likeness
Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1790
Object typePainting
MaterialsPen and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions23.8 x 23 cm
LocationUnknown
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsPortrait painting, BritishSatire in artEasels
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2. Intersubjective Portrayal
Angela Rosenthal
Description: Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility
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WHEN THE ENGLISH art critic and painter William Hazlitt noted that the “relationship between the portrait-painter and his amiable sitters is one of established custom...
Author
Angela Rosenthal
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2006 BY ANGELA ROSENTHAL
Related print edition pages: pp.43-75
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Chapter subject tags:Portrait painting, Swiss--18th centuryArt patronage--Great Britain--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryKauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807Women artists--Switzerland--18th century
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Description: Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England
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Attempts to restore historic houses to an approximation of their original condition are now commonly accompanied by efforts not only to install ‘authentic’ fixtures...
Author
Marcia Pointon
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1993 by Marcia Pointon
Related print edition pages: pp.13-52
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Description: A Sporting Cove
A Sporting Cove
Posted by:John Carlson
Dec 02
Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (Modern)
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1815–1820
Object typePainting
MaterialsPen with brown ink and watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions7 3/4 × 6 in. (19.7 × 15.2 cm)
LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5756
Accession numberB1977.14.368
A Sporting Cove
A Sporting Cove
Description: The Portrait Painter's Ante-Chamber
The Portrait Painter's Ante-Chamber
Posted by:John Carlson
Aug 24
Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation date1809
Object typeDrawing
MaterialsInk and watercolor
LocationAshmolean Museum, Oxford
https://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/search/per_page/25/offset/0/sort_by/relevance/object/38835
Accession numberWA1863.1179
The Portrait Painter's Ante-Chamber
The Portrait Painter's Ante-Chamber
Description: The Caricature Port Folio
The Caricature Port Folio
Posted by:John Carlson
Aug 13
Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator rolePainter
Object typePainting
MaterialsPen and watercolor
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The Caricature Port Folio
The Caricature Port Folio
Description: Viewing at the Royal Academy
Viewing at the Royal Academy
Posted by:John Carlson
Dec 02
Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (Modern)
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1815
Object typePainting
MaterialsPen and ink and watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions5 3/4 × 9 1/2 in. (14.6 × 24.1 cm)
LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:46535
Accession numberB2001.2.1161
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Posted by:John Carlson
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Traveling in France
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Creator nationality/cultureBritish (Modern)
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1785–1789
Object typePainting
MaterialsPen and ink and watercolor on laid paper
Dimensions11 5/16 × 17 1/2 in. (28.7 × 44.5 cm)
LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:47360
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Traveling in France
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Description: Comforts of Bath: The Concert
Comforts of Bath: The Concert
Posted by:John Carlson
Dec 02
Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (Modern)
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1795–1800
Object typePainting
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LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5572
Accession numberB1975.3.51
Comforts of Bath: The Concert
Comforts of Bath: The Concert
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Comforts of Bath: Gouty Persons Fall on Steep HIll
Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (Modern)
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1795–1800
Object typePainting
MaterialsPen and gray and brown ink and watercolor over graphite on wove paper laid on contemporary mount
Dimensions4 7/8 × 7 5/16 in. (12.4 × 18.6 cm)
LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5585
Accession numberB1975.3.58
Comforts of Bath: Gouty Persons Fall on...
Comforts of Bath: Gouty Persons Fall on Steep HIll
Description: Checkmate
Checkmate
Posted by:John Carlson
Dec 02
Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (Modern)
Creator rolePainter
Object typePainting
MaterialsPen with gray-brown and dark gray ink and watercolor over graphite on laid paper
Dimensions5 1/2 × 7 3/8 in. (14 × 18.7 cm)
LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5664
Accession numberB1975.4.915
Checkmate
Checkmate
Description: At the Portrait Painter's
At the Portrait Painter's
Posted by:John Carlson
Aug 24
Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1798
Object typePrint
MaterialsAquatint
LocationVictoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK
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Description: [Woman Playing Tambourine with the Coldstream Guards Band]
[Woman Playing Tambourine with the Coldstream Guards Band]
Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation datec. 1790–1810
Object typePrint
MaterialsEtching with stipple
LocationBritish Museum, London
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1977-U-549
Accession number1977,U.549
[Woman Playing Tambourine with the...
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Description: The Connoisseurs
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Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1790
Object typePainting
MaterialsWatercolor with pen and red, brown and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, blued white, wove paper, mounted on, medium, moderately textured, blued white, laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm); Mount: 9 1/4 × 12 5/16 in. (23.5 × 31.3 cm)
LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1670740
Accession numberB1975.3.106
The Connoisseurs
The Connoisseurs
Description: A Worn-out Debauchée
A Worn-out Debauchée
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 08
Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1790–1795
Object typePainting
MaterialsWatercolor with pen and yellow and gray-black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 13/16 × 7 13/16 in. (30 × 19.8 cm); Mount: 12 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (31.1 × 21 cm)
LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1670744
Accession numberB1975.3.100
A Worn-out Debauchée
A Worn-out Debauchée
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Aug 24
Creator name (description)After Robert Dighton
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1772
Object typePrint
MaterialsMezzotint engraving
LocationYale University, Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, Connecticut
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10715915
The Paintress: The Proper Study of...
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May 03
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Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator roleDraftsman
Creation datec. 1800
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MaterialsPen and wash
LocationUniversity College, London
http://artcat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/detail.aspx
Accession number3677
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The Beauty and the Beast
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Aug 13
Creator nameRowlandson, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator rolePainter
Object typePainting
MaterialsPen and watercolor
Dimensions15.8 x 11.3 cm
LocationBritish Museum, London
Accession number59.533.1653
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The Beauty and the Beast
Description: Welcome!
Welcome!
Posted by:John Carlson
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Creation date1896
Object typeIllustration
LocationPunch, 11 April 1896
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