Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Engraved
John Keyse Sherwin, Smithfield Sharpers or The Countryman Defrauded, 1787
Engraved
John Keyse Sherwin, Smithfield Sharpers or The Countryman Defrauded, 1787
Provenance
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1913
Joseph E. Widener (1871-1943), Elkins Park, PA
Sotheby’s, London, 11 November 1993, lot 49, where acquired by
Richard Green, London
Henry Strachey Fine Art, Inc., Warminster, United Kingdom, 1995
Private collection, New York
Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy, 1787, no. 555
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Catalogue of original Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, 1-15 February 1913, no. 98
New York, Sotheby’s, Treasures from Chatsworth, 28 June - 18 September 2019
Literature
Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the Caricaturist: a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, London 1880, vol. I, p. 47
Bernard Falk, Thomas Rowlandson; His Life and Art, 1949, pp. 59, 93-5, 98