Word: rowlandson
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...exhibition of sporting prints and paintings at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. If the Museum staff was only vaguely familiar with sporting art, this was not to its credit. Besides the skating woodcut, there were assembled a Rembrandt etching of a tired golfer, another skating scene by Rowlandson, etchings by Goya, five fine bronzes by Degas, a Hogarth cockfight, lithographs by George Wesley Bellows. A large proportion of the other sporting pictures were of horses, hounds and hunting. More than half were British, all were of a quality far superior to typical "sporting...
...days things had been going from bad to worse with Major Charles St. John Rowlandson of London. He had debts that must be paid at once. On a £50,000 life insurance policy, relic of a happier day, he had already borrowed nearly £7,000. And, worst of all, his policy would lapse entirely unless he could rake and scrape together £1,500 to pay an overdue premium by 3 o'clock one afternoon last fortnight...
...Major Rowlandson made a last effort to pay off his creditors. He went to his solicitor, James Collins, tried again without success to borrow money on an invention for cutting steel...
Newsmen soon found further points of Grosz normality. Said he: "American beer is quite nice, light, absolutely good. but not to compare with German beer." He has hobbies: carpentry, collecting etchings (Rowlandson and Daumier). He smokes a pipe, rarely a cigar. He is married, has two boys, aged 7 and 3, both quite normal...
...Jack, in the College de St. Malo, St. John's College, Oxford, founded the Oxonian weekly, The Tuesday Review. Later he came to the U. S., divided his two years here between writing two novels and playacting. Other books: The Compleat Oxford Man, Cheadle and Son, Rowlandson's Oxford (history). The Hour of Conflict, The Persistent Lovers, Bluebottles, Gunfodder, Soundings, Labels, Harness...