Thomas Rowlandson

British, b.1757, d.1827

Bachelor's Fare or Bread, Cheese and Kisses

Watercolour brush drawing
Gift of Prof. H. John Simpson and family, in memory of Ming Simpson, 2017
462 x 389mm
2017/051

Tags: animals, birdcages (containers), birds (animals), caricatures, cats, children (people by age group), dogs (animals), food, hats, interior, jugs (vessels), men (male humans), people (agents), pipes (smoking equipment), rifles (long guns), wine glasses, women (female humans)

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Picturing an amorous but not quite private moment, Thomas Rowlandson’s watercolour sketch takes its title from a phrase used by Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift in 1738, “Bachelor’s fare: bread and cheese, and kisses”. It was a study for a popular print published in London in 1813.

(Out of Time, 23 September 2023 – 28 April 2024)

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Thomas Rowlandson

Bachelor's Fare or Bread, Cheese and Kisses

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