Sujet

The Pretty Bar Maid, c1780-1825. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson.

Légende

The Pretty Bar Maid, c1780-1825. 'In Rowlandson's work, on the one hand, there is a delicate delineation of exaggerated commonplaceness and, on the other, sensitive realism. Alteration, distortion, and enlargement of feature and body are often employed beyond reason, but in the hands of Rowlandson there seems to be an unseen force to indicate the limits to which he could go - to however eccentric, grotesque, or fanciful lengths his imagination might lead him. His characters seem true to type; he was able to animate them, whether they were humorous, frivolous, ironic, or bitter'. From "The Watercolour Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson from the Albert H. Wiggin Collection in the Boston Public Library" with commentary by Arthur W. Heintzelman. [Watson-Guptill Publications, Inc., New York, 1947]

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Amanda Waite

Notre référence

HRM21B50_012

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

66,4Mo (6,5Mo) / 37,9cm x 43,9cm / 4479 x 5184 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal building drink female women woman people male interior library work job man men bowl time arts painting drinking pub dog dogs art trade guy occupation British alcohol bar beer public house color clock century drawing customer customers Britain profession inside overweight concept punch fat booth timepiece tavern liquor Colour 19th century Indoors 18th century barmaid Eighteenth Century nineteenth century punchbowl women at work working caricature satire watercolour Thomas Rowlandson Rowlandson Thomas Punch Bowl Shirley Markham 19th-century Boston Public Library Arthur William Heintzelman Heintzelman Arthur William Arthur W. Heintzelman Arthur W.