Thomas Rowlandson

KT489

Inscribed l.r.: T Rowlandson, pen and grey ink and watercolour over traces of pencil, extensively inscribed verso: A woman being catched in her Bedchamber with her/Paramour by her husband who had but one Eye She/ran to him, crying aloud that she dream he saw with both’/and therefore, I must know,” added the artful Baggage “whether my Dream be fulfill’d -saying this she shut his good Eye/which gave her Gallant an opportunity of slipping away unper=/ceived by her husband

25 x 21.4 cm.; 9 ¾ x 8 3/8 inches

Provenance

William Drummond;

Bourne Gallery, bought from the above at The Grosvenor House Antiques Fair c. 1998;

Pat Barker, bought from the above, until 2021

The inscription seems likely to have been sent to Rowlandson by someone as a proposal for a subject, as the handwriting does not seem to be that of the artist. There is no print of this subject.