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)
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)
Exhibition History
![Andreas Cellarius Hypothesis Ptolemaica Sive Communis Planetarum Motus Per Eccentricos Et Epicyclos Demonstrans [The Ptolemaic Hypothesis or Common Representation Demonstrating the Planetary Motions through Eccentrics and Epicycles] 1661. Hand-coloured engraving. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, William A. Sutton bequest, 2000](/media/cache/05/97/05970cdff0f6b3264062d69bf2aa90f5.jpg)
