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Thomas Rowlandson British
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An old woman converses with a wizened old man before a colonade. The duenna wears a cape, crucifix and a set of key at her waist. A young woman steps through the doorway behind her. Possibly relates to "The Duenna," a comic opera-play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan first produced in 1775.
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Title: The Duenna
Artist:
Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
Date: ca. 1790 (?)
Medium: Pen and gray and brown ink, water color, over traces of graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 11 11/16 x 8 9/16 in. (29.7 x 21.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Object Number: 17.97.7(10)
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