Sujet

Reading the Will, c1780-1825. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson.

Légende

Reading the Will, c1780-1825. 'Here is a brilliant example of Rowlandson's genius at capturing human emotions. This scene...becomes a humorous study of variously affected would-be inheritors, as the family lawyer reads the will over the remains of the now forgotten relative. We have the outraged individual...whom the parson is vainly trying to pacify,...the young lady...who has fainted...the eaves-dropper in the background, who looks upon the close relatives grouped around the bewildered widow. In the center, the young and perhaps undeserving principal inheritor, completely ignored by the rest, gives vent to his feelings at sudden good fortune, admired only by his perplexed canine friends'. From "The Watercolour Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson from the Albert H. Wiggin Collection in the Boston Public Library" with commentary by Arthur W. Heintzelman. [Watson-Guptill Publications, Inc., New York, 1947]

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Amanda Waite

Notre référence

HRM21B50_015

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

62,5Mo (6,7Mo) / 49,6cm x 31,5cm / 5864 x 3724 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal female women woman people male interior library man men health religious arts painting marriage religion candle candles shouting dog dogs law art guy reading British color humour funny quarrel death Christianity century drawing gesturing Britain inside argument arguing document lawyer Relatives lawyers concept faint relative collapse collapsed hand gesture disputing coffin coffins will funeral inheritance clergy heirs heir hand Gestures quarrelsome Quarreling Colour vicar 19th century legal document Indoors fainted fainting widow 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century parson smelling salts caricature satire watercolour Thomas Rowlandson Rowlandson Thomas Shirley Markham 19th-century Boston Public Library Arthur William Heintzelman Heintzelman Arthur William Arthur W. Heintzelman Arthur W.