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High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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    THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757-1827)

    Doctor Convex and Lady Concave.

    20 Nov 1802

    RCIN 810584

    The joke here is one of discrepancies: the figures are different in both appearance and social status. This is typical of Rowlandson’s love of humour which lies in the appearance of individual figures rather than in a situation. The maxim quoted at the foot of the print is by Fulke Greville, an Elizabethan courtier. Probably acquired by George III Cat. 58
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