Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827
The Flight on the Eagle's Back. Verso: Sketch of the same subject
4 5/16 x 5 3/4 inches (109 x 145 mm)
Pen and gray ink, with graphite, on paper; miscellaneous brush trials; verso: pen and gray ink, with graphite.
1986.61
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Preparatory design for the frontispiece to Rudolf Erich Raspe, "Surprising Adventures of the Renowned Baron Munchausen", London, 1809.
Preparatory design for the frontispiece to Rudolf Erich Raspe, "Surprising Adventures of the Renowned Baron Munchausen", London, 1809.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower right in graphite, "T Rowlandson"; inscribed at lower edge in pen and brown ink, "Extraordinary Flight on the back of an Eagle over France to Gibraltar. / South and North America. the Polar Regions. and back to England. within / six and thirty hours".
Associated names
Drummond, William, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 375.
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