The Review

Thomas Rowlandson British

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Rowlandson gently satirizes military men, with the long blue coat of the central officer suggesting that he is a navy officer. The company seems to await orders, as officers stand with legs apart and arms crossed, and figures at right have laid their drums on the ground. Full-coated uniforms such as this were in fashion in the middle of the eighteenth century, a period just before Rowlandson's own.

The Review, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Watercolor, pen and ink, brush and wash

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The Review, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Watercolor, pen and ink, brush and wash
The Review, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Watercolor, pen and ink, brush and wash

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