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Medium: pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil
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Dimensions: 21.5 by 29.5 cm., 8 1/2 by 11 1/2 in.
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Notes: Rowlandson travelled to Paris on several occasions in the 1770's and 1780's and enjoyed the opportunity to capture the idiosyncracy of French fashion and behaviour. It has been suggested that the costumes in the present important work date from about 1800 and it may therefore be referred to in Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the Caricaturist, 1880, Vol II, p.7...'The Tuileries in Paris - original drawing'.
A version measuring 7 3/8 by 11 in. was sold at Christie's on 4th June 1974, lot 184 (bt.Baskett and Day £2,000) and an unfinished study is in the Huntingdon Collection, San Marino, California (59.55.1133). A further version is illustrated in F.Gordon Roe's, Rowlandson: The Life and Art of a British Genius, 1947, pl.2