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- Title:
Drury Lane. The School for Scandal
- Additional Title(s):
Thalia's Frolick or the Drury Lane Bug'a 'boo!
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Watercolor with pen and black, gray and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches (26 x 39.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, upper left: (signage) "ROSE TAVERN"; in brown ink, upper right: (signage on wall) "School for Scandal |--- |--- |---|---|---|---| and | Charles by Mr. Honorble | to | which will be addes | who's the Dupe? | ---|---|---"; in brown ink, center right: (in bubble) "Boo---oo---oo--"; in brown ink, lower right: "Thalia's frolick or the Drury Lane Bug'a'boo!"; in black ink, verso, upper left: "Wigstead"; in brown ink, verso, upper center: "Radishes | New Cheese"; in brown ink, verso, upper right: (numerical computations); in graphite, verso, lower right: "D-1984; in brown ink, verso, center left: (numerical computations)
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5339
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- archways | genre subject | hats | head | men | satire | school | stick | tavern | women
- Associated Places:
- Covent Garden | Drury Lane | England | Europe | Greater London | London | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Mathew Thomas Payne, Regarding Thomas Rowlandson, 1757-1827, his life, art & acquaintance , Hogarth Arts, London, 2010, pp. 145-46, fig.61, NJ18 R79 P39 2010 (YCBA) [YCBA]