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Illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson constitute the current exhibit in the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room The display includes original drawings by the artist as well as books containing reproductions of his work...
...current exhibition in the Widener Memorial Room of Widener Library includes an interesting collection of books and pamphlets illustrated in color by Rowlandson, Leech, Heath, Cruikshank, and others...
...minds and that they cared little for literature, basing your assertion on the sale of a Thackeray first edition for $6. Has it occurred to you that the Thackeray might be worth only $6 ? And certainly you can have no objection to printing correctly the names of Messrs. Thomas Rowlandson and Henry Alken, two of the greatest caricaturists of all times...
...addition to the books and autographs the Widener collection is very notable for its drawings by such artists as William Blake, George and Robert Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson. The Rowlandson water color drawings, about 150 in number, constitute perhaps the finest series of nineteenth century humorous drawings in any private library. Of drawings by the two Cruikshanks there are some 250, a considerable portion of these being dramatic portraits. The most interesting Cruikshank item is a sketch for "Oliver Twist," the drawing on which Cruikshank based the claim that it was he who had given Dickens the suggestions which...