The Masked Ball
The Masked Ball
The Masked BallPen and grey ink over traces of pencil11.7 by 20.2 cm., 4 1/2 by 8 in.This is a preliminary drawing, in reverse, for one of Rowlandson's twenty-six illustrations to William Combe's `The Dance of Life', published by Ackermann in 1817. The engraving is captioned: `The Mask, that scene of wanton Folly/May convert Mirth to Melancholy.'){kind=link}
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
The Masked Ball
Pen and grey ink over traces of pencil
11.7 by 20.2 cm., 4 1/2 by 8 in.
This is a preliminary drawing, in reverse, for one of Rowlandson's twenty-six illustrations to William Combe's `The Dance of Life', published by Ackermann in 1817. The engraving is captioned: `The Mask, that scene of wanton Folly/May convert Mirth to Melancholy.'