A Punch and Judy show

Rowlandson, Thomas (1756 or 1757-1827)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

late 18th-early 19th c.

Height:

14.6 cm  (5 3/4 in.)

Width:

23.8 cm  (9 3/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, blued white wove paper

Description

A crowd is called together by a man playing a long trumpet to announce the start of a Punch and Judy show in the streets of a city.

Iconclass

41A1
civic architecture; edifices; dwellings
48C85231
troupe entering town, announcing the performance
48C855
puppet and marionette show
48C8511
Punch and Judy
48C8546
comedy
48A712
the audience ~ art performance
48A7
presenting a work of art to the public; performing, interpreting, reciting

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown trumpet [6556]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

"British art at Yale", Apollo 105/182 (April 1977) 278, 280, fig. 4.



"The cunning eye of Thomas Rowlandson", Apollo 105/182 (April 1977) 278, 280, fig. 4.

Notes

Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "Rowlandson -"

RIdIM record id

6336