An Artist Travelling in Wales. Artist: After Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London); Henri Merke (Swiss, Niederweningen, canton Zürich ca. 1760-after 1820). Dimensions: sheet: 13 3/16 x 15 1/2 in. (33.5 x 39.4 cm). Publisher: Published by Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Date: February 10, 1799.The protracted Anglo-French conflict between 1792 and 1815 prevented British artists from exploring the Continent. Instead, many sought vistas at home, encouraged by William Gilpin's influential book Observations relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty (1786). Rowlandson's image parodies a strenuous tour made through Wales in August 1797 with the caricaturist Henry Wigstead. A published account describes constant fog and rain, rough roads, poor lodgings, spartan food and wild country folk. In this image, a tall, thin, figure-possibly intended for Wigstead-balances on a small pony. Man and beast are laden with artistic paraphernalia, all inadequately shielded from the d

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An Artist Travelling in Wales. Artist: After Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London); Henri Merke (Swiss, Niederweningen, canton Zürich ca. 1760-after 1820). Dimensions: sheet: 13 3/16 x 15 1/2 in. (33.5 x 39.4 cm). Publisher: Published by Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Date: February 10, 1799.The protracted Anglo-French conflict between 1792 and 1815 prevented British artists from exploring the Continent. Instead, many sought vistas at home, encouraged by William Gilpin's influential book Observations relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty (1786). Rowlandson's image parodies a strenuous tour made through Wales in August 1797 with the caricaturist Henry Wigstead. A published account describes constant fog and rain, rough roads, poor lodgings, spartan food and wild country folk. In this image, a tall, thin, figure-possibly intended for Wigstead-balances on a small pony. Man and beast are laden with artistic paraphernalia, all inadequately shielded from the d

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