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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.501
People
Thomas Rowlandson, British (London, England 1756 - 1827 London, England)
Title
Side Box at the Opera
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1785
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298158

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and black ink over graphite on cream paper
Dimensions
10.8 x 15.7 cm (4 1/4 x 6 3/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.501
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Martin Birnbaum, Jacovleff and Other Artists, Paul A. Struck (New York, 1946), pl. 35
  • John Hayes, Rowlandson: Watercolours and Drawings, Phaidon (London, 1972), pl. 28
  • Hanneke Grootenboer, "Treasuring the Gaze: Eye Miniature Portraits and the Intimacy of Vision", The Art Bulletin (September 2006), LXXXVIII, no. 3, pp. 496-507, p. 500, fig. 4
  • Hanneke Grootenboer, Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures, University of Chicago Press (Chicago and London, 2012), repr. as fig. 27, p. 73; p. 73

Verification Level

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