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...have played the fool," he would say when all his money was gone, "but here is my resource." Then he would hold up a pencil-and everyone in the room would know that with that and a box of colors Tom Rowlandson could earn whatever money he needed...
Next to his work, which was turning out drawings and watercolors, Thomas Rowlandson liked to drink; and next to drinking, he liked to gamble. It was said of him that he once stood at a gaming table for nearly 36 hours without pausing to eat or sleep. He was apparently never very lucky, but that did not matter...
This week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art opens a lively exhibition called "Rowlandson's England," consisting of more than 100 drawings, prints, illustrations and watercolors by Rowlandson and his contemporaries. Though he did not make himself out to be more than a cartoonist and a caricaturist, Rowlandson was in fact an artist who caught the moods and madnesses of his time better than any other. As A. Hyatt Mayor, the Met's curator of prints, says of the show: "When we try to imagine England in the early 18th century, we see it through Hogarth. When...
...Touch of Banana Peel. Rowlandson first exhibited a drawing when he was only 18, and soon both Sir Joshua Reynolds and Benjamin West were praising him. But serious painting on a large scale never suited the Rowlandson temperament. A ?7,000 legacy from an aunt gave him a taste for high living, and he wandered through Europe and England, drinking, talking, gambling-and drawing. He illustrated a dozen books including Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. His work became so popular that a new industry arose in London: producing fake Rowlandsons...
When undergraduate Widener was with the Hasty Pudding Club he became interested in the costumes of various literary periods. Partly because of a collector's curiosity, partly because he wanted his costumes very accurate, he built up a surprisingly good collection of colored plates of costumes by Cruikshank and Rowlandson...