Lark Mason Associates Works by Thomas Rowlandson From an American Collector Online Auction
February 24 – March 15, 2022
227 E. 120th St, New York, NY 10035
Contact: 212-289-5524
Niki@larkmasonassociates.com
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NEW YORK CITY — Lark Mason Associates is offering the works by Thomas Rowlandson from an American collector on iGavelAuctions.com through March 15. More than 500 lots of drawings, prints and books by Rowlandson, who ushered in the golden age of British caricature art at the turn of the Nineteenth Century, will cross the block.

Rowlandson produced sardonic illustrations in ink and watercolor that skewered powerful political figures such as the Duchess of Devonshire, William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte, and depicted contemporary events in a humorous robust and bawdy style. Rowlandson’s drawings of life in Georgian England exposed human foibles and vanity with sympathy and rollicking humor, and he achieved success selling these prints and watercolors to wealthy collectors. However, for much of his life he was an inveterate gambler and had to produce a flood of his comic prints to stay ahead of financial losses.

Among the highlights are “True Love, Older Man with a Younger Lady,” watercolor and ink on paper ($10/15,000); “Miseries of Travelling,” watercolor and ink on paper ($10/15,000); “Robbers Surrounding Mother and Child,” pen and paper, and two related etchings ($4/6,000); “Caricature Magazine,” hand-colored etchings bound in original brown printed cover ($1,5/2,500); and “Six Hand-colored Etchings in Miseries Series” ($300/500).

“We are delighted to offer this recently discovered cache of satiric drawing and prints by the renowned caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson,” said Lark Mason. “Underscoring the adage ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same,’ Rowlandson’s drawings reflect many of the same issues we confront today — whether it’s sitting through a long boring dinner, observing an older gentleman with a younger woman or dealing with overcrowded public transportation.

The prints and drawings will be on view at Lark Mason Associates, 229 East 127th Street, Monday through Friday, 10 am to 5 pm.

For additional information, www.igavelauctions.com.

Lark Mason Associates Fine and Decorative Arts Baroque and Other Furniture Online Auction
March 8 – March 24, 2022
210 W. Mill Street, New Braunfels, TX
227 E. 120th St, New York, NY 10035
Contact: 212-289-5524
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