Object number1953.7.6

Bachelors Fare - Bread and Cheese and Kisses (also known as Couple Embracing in Cottage Interior)

Datec. 1800

Artist Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1757-1827)

CultureEnglish

MediumBlack ink and wash, brown ink, and watercolor, over graphite on cream wove paper

DimensionsMatted: 16 x 22 in. (40.64 x 55.88 cm)
Sheet: 7 7/8 x 10 in. (20 x 25.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Fitz Randolph (Mary E. Hill, class of 1945-4)

On View

Not on view

Period18th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

InscribedInscribed (at bottom, in pencil): Bread and Cheese and (kisses?)...(illegible)

Vassar Exhibitions

Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England

Alumni Reunion Exhibition (1990)

Exhibition History"No Incidents but a Ghost and a Storm: European Prints and Drawings of the Romantic Period," Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 20 September - 15 December 1996;
Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections [further research needed for exhibition title and specific dates - see email in file dated 6/7/07 ], 1972

Evanston, Illinois, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, "Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England," January 14 - March 13, 2011.

Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England," April 8 - June 12, 2011.

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email loebcollections@vassar.edu