Quae Genus with a Spendthrift
Artist/Maker
Thomas Rowlandson
(English, 1756–1827)
Date1821
MediumPen and brown ink with pink and green watercolor on paper
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 4 7/16 × 7 5/16 in. (11.3 × 18.6 cm)
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Object number1949.13
Status
Not on viewThis is either a preparatory drawing for, or a variant drawing after, an aquatint published in the book The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the little Foundling of the late Doctor Syntax, by William Combe, in London in 1822. The book was written particularly to accompany caricatures by Rowlandson.
Exhibition History
Working Drawings
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 24, 1981 - April 27, 1981 )
Love, Glory and Guns: Images of Peace and War from the Permanent Collection
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 3, 1986 - November 16, 1986 )
European Master Drawings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 29, 2002 - June 9, 2003 )
On Line: European Drawings, 16th-19th Centuries
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 18, 2007 - January 27, 2008 )
Out of Albion: British Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2008 - December 23, 2008 )
Collections
- European
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mid-20th century
1938