Fairlop Fair, Essex
Thomas Rowlandson
ca. 1816
Medium
Pen and brown and gray inks, with watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 5/16 x 14 3/16 in. (21.1 x 36 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1908
Accession Number
08.227.17
Tags
Human FiguresRoadsTreesCarriages
About the Artist
Thomas Rowlandson · 1756–1827
Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827) was an English artist and caricaturist whose satirical watercolors and prints captured the social life of Georgian Britain with unparalleled wit and technical mastery. Alongside James Gillray, he is recognized as one of the greatest British graphic artists, and his distinctive flowing line and keen observations have made his work integral to understanding late 18th an...