| Method | Etching and aquatint with original hand colouring |
| Artist | Thomas Rowlandson |
| Published | London, Publish'd May 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts; 101, Strand |
| Dimensions | Image 210 x 305 mm, Sheet 235 x 330 mm |
| Notes |
Signed within the plate: 'Rowlandson 1810' A brilliant Oxford satire set in front of the Radcliffe Observatory (now part of Green College). Figures in academic robes and members of the public peer through a telescope and a solar projector, the later being used upside down like a giant microscope. Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827) was an English watercolourist and caricaturist. Born in London, the son of a weaver, Rowlandson studied at the Soho Academy from 1765. On leaving school in 1772, he became a student at the Royal Academy and made the first of many trips to Paris where he may have studied under Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. In 1775 he exhibited the drawing Dalilah Payeth Sampson a Visit while in Prison at Gaza at the Royal Academy and two years later received a silver medal for a bas-relief figure. As a printmaker Rowlandson was largely employed by the art publisher Rudolph Ackermann, who in 1809, issued in his Poetical Magazine The Schoolmaster's Tour, a series of plates with illustrative verses by Dr. William Combe. Proving popular, the plates were engraved again in 1812 by Rowlandson himself, and issued under the title The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. By 1813 the series had attained a fifth edition, and was followed in 1820 by Dr Syntax in Search of Consolation, Third Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of a Wife in 1821 and also in the same year by The history of Johnny Quae Genus, the little foundling of the late Doctor Syntax. Rowlandson also illustrated work by Smollett, Goldsmith and Sterne, and for The Spirit of the Public Journals (1825), The English Spy (1825), and The Humorist (1831). Not in Grego or BM Satires Condition: Colours slightly faded, toning to edges of sheet, small area of thinning to right of image. Unidentified collectors mark on verso 'SP' |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £700.00 |
| Stock ID | 48673 |