About this lot

Description

Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1756-1827)

Newport Statute Fair, Isle of Wight
inscribed in pencil with the title (lower centre)
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour on paper
13 x 25cm



Provenance:
Spink, London



Footnote:

The present watercolour was most probably executed during one of Rowlandson's tours of the Isle of Wight in the 1790s. With its recorded population of 3,700 by the early 1800s, Newport was regarded as the most important town on the island.



Condition report:

38 x 49cm (framed)

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