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A pen and ink and watercolor drawing of boisterous, aristocratic Englishmen seated in high-backed chairs. The bewigged men talk, sleep, and look around the art and marble-bust filled room. A pen and ink and watercolor drawing of boisterous, aristocratic Englishmen seated in high-backed chairs. The bewigged men talk, sleep, and look around the art and marble-bust filled room. A pen and ink and watercolor drawing of boisterous, aristocratic Englishmen seated in high-backed chairs. The bewigged men talk, sleep, and look around the art and marble-bust filled room.

Thomas Rowlandson

A Meeting of Cognoscenti (After Dinner),

Description

Maker

  • Thomas Rowlandson

Title

A Meeting of Cognoscenti (After Dinner)

Medium

watercolor

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Techniques

  • Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Supports

  • wove paper

Dimensions

24 x 36.5 cm (9 7/16 x 14 3/8 inches)

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

20.504

About

A Meeting of Cognoscenti (After Dinner)

Drawing Closer

Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum
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Pilgrims of Beauty

Art and Inspiration in 19th-Century Italy
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A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Projects & Publications

Publications

Drawing Closer

Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum
Read Online

Pilgrims of Beauty

Art and Inspiration in 19th-Century Italy
Read Online

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Drawing Closer

March 12 - September 4, 2022

Pilgrims of Beauty

February 3 - July 8, 2012

From Dürer to Van Gogh

June 5 - October 26, 2008

The English Eye

June 21 - September 1, 1991

Master Drawing from the Museum and a Private Collection

June 19 - October 27, 1946

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is A Meeting of Cognoscenti (After Dinner) with the accession number of 20.504. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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