Box lobby loungers

Box lobby loungers

Item Information

Title:
Box lobby loungers
Description:
The diversities of character introduced into this drawing, which is one of Rowlandson's larger productions, entitle it to a prominent place in a collection of the artist's works. Glimpses of the theatre are seen through the open doors. The most conspicuous figure is that of a military hero, the adventurous Colonel George Hanger (afterwards Lord Coleraine), companion and instigator of the Prince of Wales's early frolics ; well known to the satirists, and in short one of the notorieties of his generation. On the right of the ubiquitous hero another pair of lovely damsels, displaying the follies of the mode in their attire, are attracting the somewhat marked attentions of a circle of elderly admirers. A dwarfed and deformed beau, elaborately dressed in the French fashion, probably designed for the figure of Sir Lumley Skeffington, who was the authority, among the bucks and 'fashionables' of his day, on theatrical matters, is treading on the train of an antiquated belle.
Artist:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Date:
January 5, 1787
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Aquatints
Caricatures
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Theaters
Lobbies
Theater audiences
Nobility
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850
Extent:
1 print : etching and aquatint ; sheet 45 x 63 cm
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Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Grego, I, p. 180
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Identifier:
18_03_000265
Barcode:
36666000168811