Word: rowlandson
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Dates: during 1912-1912
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...addition to the books and autographs the Widener collection is very notable for its drawings by such artists as William Blake, George and Robert Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson. The Rowlandson water color drawings, about 150 in number, constitute perhaps the finest series of nineteenth century humorous drawings in any private library. Of drawings by the two Cruikshanks there are some 250, a considerable portion of these being dramatic portraits. The most interesting Cruikshank item is a sketch for "Oliver Twist," the drawing on which Cruikshank based the claim that it was he who had given Dickens the suggestions which...