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Crowd in Front of the Publisher Aaron Martinet’s Shop Window in rue du Coq, Paris
Also titled Menigte voor de etalage van uitgever Aaron Martinet in de Rue du Coq te Parijs toegeschreven aan Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Thomas Rowlandson (London, 1756–ca.)
c. 1805 - c. 1819
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 227 mm x width 379 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- S. Emmering Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This etching features a crowd of potential customers jostling one another outside Aaron Martinet’s printshop behind the Louvre in Paris. Not only are people looking intently at the merchandise, they are also observing one other. Rowlandson drew sharp contrasts between the English tourists on the right and the Parisians on the left, distinguished by the way they are dressed.
