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The Assignation
Thomas Rowlandson British
Not on view
A fashion for transparencies—paintings or prints illuminated from behind by daylight or lamplight—swept across Europe around the turn of the nineteenth century. Popular subjects included ruined abbeys, stained glass windows, and scenes lit by a glimmering moon. Here, Rowlandson pokes fun at conventional ideas about romance, conjuring a naughty rendezvous in which a young woman of modest means sneaks off into the night with a gentleman whose carriage waits by a moonlit pond.
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