Lot 6: Michael 'Angelo' Rooker, A.R.A. (1746-1801)

An illustration to 'The Life of Tristram Shandy': Trim reading the Sermon
with inscription 'M.A. Rooker' (on the wash-line border, overmounted)
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour with gum arabic
4 7/8 x 3 in. (12.4 x 7.6 cm.)

Edward Basil Jupp; Christie's, London, 6 May 1884, part of lot 229 (195 gns to Waller).
Thomas William Waller.
Elizabeth Stauffer Moore and by descent to
Elizabeth Richardson Simmons; Christie's, London, 12 November 1968, lot 191.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 July 1988, lot 64, where purchased by the present owner.

Rooker supplied illustrations as frontispieces to eleven of the twelve volumes of Fielding's Works, published in November 1783. He also provided illustrations for the 1778 six volume edition of Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Although not used in that edition the present drawing depicts a scene from Book 2, Chapter XVII.

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