Paintings, Prints & Drawings — C. 1785
Showing off in Rotten Row
This fashionably dressed young woman is showing off both her riding skills and the spirit of her horse. She is riding side-saddle, which was considered a more 'modest' way for women to ride than astride the horse, like men.
Rotten Row was given over to riders for pleasure or exercise when George II's new road to Kensington was laid out close by.
Although, Rowlandson has inscribed this drawing 'Shewing off in Rotten Row', there is no landscape detail to suggest any particular location. Rotten Row is probably a corruption of the French 'route du roi', since it was originally the royal road through Hyde Park, connecting St James's and Kensington Palaces.
- Category:
- Paintings, Prints & Drawings
- Object ID:
- A9268
- Object name:
- Showing off in Rotten Row
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- Artist/Maker:
- Rowlandson, Thomas
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- Production date:
- c. 1785
- Material:
- paper, watercolour, pencil, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- DM 307 mm (paper)
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- Record quality:
- 100%
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- Copyright holder:
- digital image © London Museum
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