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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827
The Flight on the Eagle's Back. Verso: Sketch of the same subject
Pen and gray ink, with graphite, on paper; miscellaneous brush trials; verso: pen and gray ink, with graphite.
4 5/16 x 5 3/4 inches (109 x 145 mm)
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund.
1986.61
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Watermark: none.
Preparatory design for the frontispiece to Rudolf Erich Raspe, "Surprising Adventures of the Renowned Baron Munchausen", London, 1809.
Inscription:
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".
Provenance:
William Drummond, Ltd., London.
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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