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The Departure of the Coach
ca. 1785
Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827
English
Unknown
Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on cream laid paper
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 9 1/4 inches (15.9 × 23.5 cm)
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Bequest of Carl F. Clarke
54.98
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Markings
Inscribed, in pen and black ink on mount, lower center: H. WIGSTEAD. | fl 1784-1798 Inscribed, in pencil on mount, lower right corner: London coach | H. Wigstead fl: 1784-1798
Watermark: coat of arms
Provenance
Carl. F. Clarke (Detroit, Michigan, USA and England)
[as by Henry Wigstead] 1954-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 341-342, no. A96.
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circle of Thomas Rowlandson, The Departure of the Coach, ca. 1785, watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Carl F. Clarke, 54.98.
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