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THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757-1827)

The Unwelcome Visitor, or, the Quaker in a Quake

c. 1800

RCIN 913701

While the two main figures in this drawing of a comic encounter are heavily worked, the rest of the scene has been hastily sketched in. Rowlandson first drew the pregnant woman visiting a panicking man. He later added the man behind the door, whose gesture of duplicity indicates that the woman may be swindling her lover. Purchased by George IV, 1828 Cat. 51

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