Rowlandson the Caricaturist

Rowlandson the Caricaturist

Author: Joseph Grego

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-08-03

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 3752395494

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Reproduction of the original: Rowlandson the Caricaturist by Joseph Grego


Rowlandson

Rowlandson

Author: Ronald Paulson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 152

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Gainsborough's Vision

Gainsborough's Vision

Author: Amal Asfour

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780853238744

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Thomas Gainsborough, one of the most popular British painters, has been celebrated as a landscapist, a portrait painter, and a man of feeling whose impetuous character is revealed in his art, life and letters. This book reveals that the style, themes and ideas of Gainsborough’s paintings constitute purposeful expressions of an intellectual and visual culture whose importance in the development of eighteenth-century British art has gone unrecognized. "Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson have set out to make us look more knowledgeably at the paintings of Gainsborough... their treatment is richly informative."—George Steiner, The Observer "Asfour and Williamson display a profound knowledge of 18th-century aesthetics... a highly stimulating book."—The British Art Journal


Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Huntington Collection

Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Huntington Collection

Author: Thomas Rowlandson

Publisher: Huntington Library Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 418

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The Huntington collection of drawings by Thomas Rowlandson is generally regarded as the largest and most comprehensive at present in a public museum. The collection offers an unrivaled opportunity for the study of this prolific artist's range of interests and the development of his technique. As a line draftsman and humorist, Thomas Rowlandson was probably the finest England has ever produced. Certainly he had a wider command of comic devices and comes closer to exploiting their full potentialities than any other British artist. He is also wonderfully inventive in discovering and expressing the comic aspects of a great variety of everyday situations. His reputation as a humorist, though, should not obscure his achievement in other fields: he is a charming landscapist and genre artist, and a skillful portraitist. All these facets of Rowlandson's work are well represented in this volume, which reproduces and catalogues all of the Huntington drawings, including those from A Tour in a Post Chaise and The English Dance of Death, both previously published by the Huntington. In his introductory essay, Robert Wark discusses Rowlandson's art and illustrates the various aspects of his work by relating them to selected drawings that are reproduced in full color. The book will be of immense value to the student of art history, and the layman will be delighted by the vigor and sheer virtuosity of Rowlandson's work.