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Subject(s)

• Caricature [Browse]
• Rain and rainfall—Wales—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Travelers—Wales—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Weather—Wales—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Self-portraits, British—18th century [Browse]
• Artists—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Transportation—Wales—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Horsemen and horsewomen—Wales—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Umbrellas—Wales—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]

Related name

• Merke, Henri [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Aquatints, Hand coloring
• Depiction: A view in Wales is faithfully pictured. The unsophisticated natives are struck with astonishment at the figure of the travelling artist. Rain, which is now unknown in the Principality, is wrapping the landscape and figures in a moist embrace. T.
• Depiction: The easel is folded up on the back of the stumpy pony. Brushes, a palette knife, flasks of oil of goodly proportions, and a palette of extensive dimensions are attached to the animal's neck, and thus equipped, the man of paint and his rough ste.
• Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson delin." ".
• Signed in plate, lower right: "Merke sculp.

Source acquisition

Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.

References

Grego I, pp. 360-362 (discusses the possibility of this caricature being a self-portrait of Rowlandson, but does not assert the idea as fact)

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