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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Hamlet and Church with Scaffolding on its Tower

Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827

Hamlet and Church with Scaffolding on its Tower

11 1/6 x 17 13/16 inches (280 x 453 mm)
Pen and brown, gray-brown and pale gray-black ink on paper.
1961.30

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the artist at lower right, "Pakinghtun. Rowlandson 1775"; questionable signature at lower left.
Bibliography
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Twelfth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1963, p. 91-92.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 165.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department