Details
Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756-1827)
The Comforts of Bath - The Ball: figures attending a concert in an Assembly Room

pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour on paper
5 x 814 in. (12.7 x 21 cm.)

Provenance
Ray Livingston Murphy (†); Christie's, London, 8 July 1986, lot 57.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 July 1994, lot 118, where purchased for the present collection.
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Lot Essay

The Comforts of Bath is a series of 12 etchings by Thomas Rowlandson, each accompanied by verse extracts from Christopher Anstey’s New Bath Guide, published in 1766. Another version of this watercolour is at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.
Ray Livingston Murphy was a New York collector of books and drawings, whose focus across both fields was British. His collecting was much influenced by William Beckford, some of whose books and drawings he owned. He bequeathed his library to Yale.

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