Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Cottage full of children].
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00733
Identifier
ark:/88435/8049gd16d
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 14.7 x 23.1 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A19
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: View of rural cottage, nine little children on left, old woman, girl on right, yard with dog, cat, pigs, chickens.
Watermark [partial]: "W".
Unsigned.
This is unfinished sketch reveals clearly Rowlandson's working method: the pencil underdrawing and the inking in and addition of wash. The theme and figure of man shaving can be compared with the much earlier Domestic Shaving <BMSat 7086> of 1786 .

Discovery Information

Subject
Children in art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/04d874ad-a6c1-4073-a120-b46f763110b0/manifest