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...After the last person [who bought the last ticket] left, people coming in for the tickets were upset and heartbroken," said Stephen D. Frick '93, who works in the office...
Macha's husband, Ian, the shepherd (Stephen Frick) is a caricature of a fool. Though he is appreciative of womanhood and respectful of his wife, his weaknesses and stupidity are the cause of her wrestling--while pregnant--with Lord Owain. We sympathize with Macha when she asks, "Are all those who practice a gentle touch weak in the brain...
...idea of a "complete" Rowlandson retrospective is therefore unthinkable. But the Frick Collection in New York City last week mounted a more modest exhibit: some 80 drawings and watercolors, curated by art historian John Hayes, that will be seen through April 8 and in Pittsburgh and Baltimore later this year. The show samples without fatigue the best of Rowlandson's work and includes several of his real masterpieces, notably Vauxhall Gardens, 1784, that charivari of Georgian London in pursuit of pleasure: fops, soldiers, beggars, rowdies, beauties, literary celebrities, the high and the low jostling and quizzing one another, each fresh...
...work, in an unpretentious and conversational way, in the poses of figures quoted from all manner of old masters and antique statuary. It even pervades the many pornographic drawings he did to stimulate the jaded appetites of the Prince Regent, which are not included at the Frick...
Thomas Rowlandson's drawings and watercolors at the Frick Collection in New York City are friezes of dense and rowdy life in gaming room and salon...