Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Huntington Collection - Hardcover

Wark, Robert R.; Rowlandson, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873280652 ISBN 13: 9780873280655

Verlag: Huntington Library Press,US, 1975

Inhaltsangabe

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 fromA 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.

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Robert R. Wark is the former Curator of the Huntington Art Collections. His books includeEarly British Drawings in the Huntington Collection 1660-1750 and Ten British Pictures 1740-1840.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Huntington Library Press,US
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1975
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0873280652
• ISBN 13: 9780873280655
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 398
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