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Bronze medal from the Paris Mint (cornucopia hallmark from 1880).
Medal struck in 1977.
Some traces of handling, small shocks and friction.
Engraver/artist : Ronald SEARLE (1920-2011) .
Dimension : 85mm.
Weight : 257 g.
Metal : bronze .
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) : cornucopia + br flo + 1977 .
Dimension : 85mm.
Weight : 257 g.
Metal : bronze .
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) : cornucopia + br flo + 1977 .
Quick and neat delivery .
The support is not for sale.
The stand is not for sale.
Thomas Rowlandson, born in London on July 14, 1756 and died in the same city on April 21, 1827, is an English illustrator and caricaturist.
Biography
This section does not sufficiently cite its sources (October 2022).
Thomas Rowlandson was born in the City of London in the district of Old Jewry. His father was a trader or merchant in the City. At the end of his secondary studies, he entered the Royal Academy. He was 16 when he moved to Paris from 1772 to 1775 with an uncle. He entered the Royal Academy, protected by Pigalle.
Later he made frequent trips to Europe, enriching his sketchbook with studies of characters and scenes of daily life taken from life. In 1775, he exhibited a drawing depicting Delilah visiting Samson in prison. In 1777 he established himself as a portrait painter and continued to exhibit portraits and landscapes. He gained a reputation as a promising young artist, and it is likely that if he had pursued this career with the zeal of his beginnings, he would have left a name in painting. But on the death of his aunt, a lady of French quality, he inherited 7,000 pounds sterling and from 1782, he abandoned artistic creation to devote himself almost exclusively to gambling.
Nine couples in a contra dance
Caricatured couples (except the youngest, on the left) dancing a counter dance.
He eventually found himself ruined and it was perhaps the example of James Gillray and Henry William Bunbury that inspired him to take up caricature to make ends meet. His drawing of Vauxhall, exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1784, was engraved by Pollard and the print became a commercial success. From this time Rowlandson worked mainly for the art publisher Rudolph Ackermann, who in 1809 published a series of engravings with text by Dr William Combe, which appeared in his poetry journal The Schoolmaster's Tour. These engravings will remain the most popular that the artist produced. Rowlandson personally engraved a new edition in 1812, which was published under the title The Journey of Dr. Syntax in Quest of the Picturesque. A fifth edition was released in 1813, followed in 1820 by the series Dr. Syntax in search of consolation and in 1821 by The third voyage of Dr. Syntax in search of a wife.
Licentious engraving
One of the erotic engravings: Solitary diversion.
Thomas Rowlandson also produced a body of erotic woodcuts and etchings.
In collaboration with the same publisher and the same author, he published A Dance of Death (1814-1816), one of his masterpieces, followed by The Dance of Life in 1822. He also illustrated the works of Smollett, Goldsmith, and Sterne, and his drawings appeared in magazines such as The Spirit of the Public Journals (1825), The English Spy (1825), and The Humorist (1831).
He died in Lo
Biography
This section does not sufficiently cite its sources (October 2022).
Thomas Rowlandson was born in the City of London in the district of Old Jewry. His father was a trader or merchant in the City. At the end of his secondary studies, he entered the Royal Academy. He was 16 when he moved to Paris from 1772 to 1775 with an uncle. He entered the Royal Academy, protected by Pigalle.
Later he made frequent trips to Europe, enriching his sketchbook with studies of characters and scenes of daily life taken from life. In 1775, he exhibited a drawing depicting Delilah visiting Samson in prison. In 1777 he established himself as a portrait painter and continued to exhibit portraits and landscapes. He gained a reputation as a promising young artist, and it is likely that if he had pursued this career with the zeal of his beginnings, he would have left a name in painting. But on the death of his aunt, a lady of French quality, he inherited 7,000 pounds sterling and from 1782, he abandoned artistic creation to devote himself almost exclusively to gambling.
Nine couples in a contra dance
Caricatured couples (except the youngest, on the left) dancing a counter dance.
He eventually found himself ruined and it was perhaps the example of James Gillray and Henry William Bunbury that inspired him to take up caricature to make ends meet. His drawing of Vauxhall, exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1784, was engraved by Pollard and the print became a commercial success. From this time Rowlandson worked mainly for the art publisher Rudolph Ackermann, who in 1809 published a series of engravings with text by Dr William Combe, which appeared in his poetry journal The Schoolmaster's Tour. These engravings will remain the most popular that the artist produced. Rowlandson personally engraved a new edition in 1812, which was published under the title The Journey of Dr. Syntax in Quest of the Picturesque. A fifth edition was released in 1813, followed in 1820 by the series Dr. Syntax in search of consolation and in 1821 by The third voyage of Dr. Syntax in search of a wife.
Licentious engraving
One of the erotic engravings: Solitary diversion.
Thomas Rowlandson also produced a body of erotic woodcuts and etchings.
In collaboration with the same publisher and the same author, he published A Dance of Death (1814-1816), one of his masterpieces, followed by The Dance of Life in 1822. He also illustrated the works of Smollett, Goldsmith, and Sterne, and his drawings appeared in magazines such as The Spirit of the Public Journals (1825), The English Spy (1825), and The Humorist (1831).
He died in Lo