Vauxhall Gardens

Old Vauxhall Gardens (Vauxhall Gardens), Old Vauxhall Gardens, Mount: 15 1/16 x 20 11/16 inches (38.3 x 52.5 cm), Sheet: 13 3/16 x 18 3/4 inches (33.5 x 47.6 cm), Inscribed in black ink, on mount, lower left: "Thomas Rowlandson. (underlined) - Old Vauxhall Gardens (underlined) - The earliest version of the subject. | Mrs. Weischel, mother of Mrs. Billington, singing in the orchestra. Portraits of the Prince of Wales, Mrs. Robinson and her husband, | Duchess of Devonshire, Lady Duncannon, Captain Topham, Admiral Paisley, James Perry, Parson Bate Dudley, Mrs. Hartley and others. | In a supper-box, Dr. Johnson, Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, and Oliver Goldsmith. ----"; in black ink, on mount, lower right: "Ce dessin provient de la collection de Sir William Aug. Fraser, Bart M.A. | I la figure en 1899 a I'exposition des oeuvres des 'English humourists in Art' | No. 32 du catalogue. - Cette exposition eut lieu dans les galeries du | 'Royal Institue of Painters in Water-colours.'---", Collector's stamp of L.S. Delatigny (Lugt 1768a), lower left
Accession number: B1975.4.1844
Medium: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, sligtly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions: Mount: 15 1/16 x 20 11/16 inches (38.3 x 52.5 cm)|Sheet: 13 3/16 x 18 3/4 inches (33.5 x 47.6 cm)
Inscriptions: Inscribed in black ink, on mount, lower left: "Thomas Rowlandson. (underlined) - Old Vauxhall Gardens (underlined) - The earliest version of the subject. | Mrs. Weischel, mother of Mrs. Billington, singing in the orchestra. Portraits of the Prince of Wales, Mrs. Robinson and her husband, | Duchess of Devonshire, Lady Duncannon, Captain Topham, Admiral Paisley, James Perry, Parson Bate Dudley, Mrs. Hartley and others. | In a supper-box, Dr. Johnson, Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, and Oliver Goldsmith. ----"; in black ink, on mount, lower right: "Ce dessin provient de la collection de Sir William Aug. Fraser, Bart M.A. | I la figure en 1899 a I'exposition des oeuvres des 'English humourists in Art' | No. 32 du catalogue. - Cette exposition eut lieu dans les galeries du | 'Royal Institue of Painters in Water-colours.'---"|Collector's stamp of L.S. Delatigny (Lugt 1768a), lower left
Bibliography: Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 6-7, 12, 3, V 1699 (YCBA)|Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 : [exhibition and label text], [New Haven, 2006, [p. 37], V 1699:1 (YCBA)|British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 280-1, fig. 8, N5220 M552 A7 1977 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Published as April 1977 issue of Apollo; all of the articles may also be found in bound Apollo Volume [N1 A54 105:2 +]|The Cunning Eye of Thomas Rowlandson, Apollo, vol.105,no. 182, April 1977, pp. 280-1, fig. 8, N1 A54 05:2 + (YCBA) Another copy of this article may be found in a separately bound and catalogued copy of this issue located on the Mellon Shelf [call number : N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)]|Patricia Phagan, Thomas Rowlandson, pleasures and pursuits in Georgian England, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. London, 2011, pp. 58-59, no. 1, NJ18 R79 P53 2011 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)|Simon Schama, Rowlandson in the Round, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue no. 3963, March 10, 1978, p. 282, Film S748 (SML) Also available Online in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS)|Jonathan Conlin, The pleasure garden , from Vauxhall to Coney Island, , University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2013, p. 113, fig. 4.4, SB451.36.G7 P54 2013 (YCBA) Also available online (ORBIS) [Project Muse]
Collection: Prints and Drawings