The Interview

Artist Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1756 - 1827)

Datelate 18th-early 19th century

MediumPen and red-brown ink with watercolor washes on paper

DimensionsOverall: 10 1/8 × 7 11/16 inches (25.73 × 19.53 cm)
Framed: 21 × 17 × 1 1/4 inches (53.34 × 43.18 × 3.18 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy

Object number81-30/71

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 77, as The Interview.

Old Master Drawings: Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy, Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1982, no. 27, as The Interview.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 56, as The Interview.

Caricature, Fashion and Fantasy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 18-December 14, 2014, as The Interview.

Gallery Label

Thomas Rowlandson was the best known caricaturist of late 18th-century England and even today he can still seem very amusing. Here a fashionable lounger peers down at a stout, combative lady through his quizzing glass. He towers over her, much to the amusement of the servant to the right.

Provenance

Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, MA, by February 2, 1938-May 19, 1953;

Purchased from Hofer, through Durlacher Brothers, New York, stock no. P25, by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, May 19, 1953-1980 [1];

His bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

NOTES:

[1] Getty Research Library, Los Angeles, Durlacher Brothers Records, Box 14, Ledger 1937-1966.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 40, as The Interview.

Old Master Drawings: Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy, Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1982), unpaginated, (repro.), as The Interview.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 12, 178-79, (repro.), as The Interview.

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