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THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757-1827)
The Chamber of Genius
2 Apr 1812RCIN 913706
In this drawing of a struggling artist surrounded by his family, Rowlandson contrasts the idleness of the sleeping woman with the industry of her young children. The palette bearing an ‘s’ may be a sly allusion to Hogarth’s self-portrait of 1749, which showed a similar palette displaying Hogarth’s sinuous ‘line of beauty’.
Purchased by George IV when Prince Regent, 1811
Cat. 63
Bibliographic reference(s)
no. 541 (O(E) : Oppé, A.P., 1950. English Drawings in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London)
