Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756-1827)Batchelor's fare, bread, cheese and kissessigned 'Rowlandson del' (lower right) and further inscribed along the trimmed lower edgepen, brown ink and watercolour on wove paper27x 21cm(10 5/8x 8 1/4in).together with a hand-coloured etching of the subject, in the opposite sense, dated 1813 and bound into red morocco covers which bears the bookplate of J. Barton Townsend (2)For further information on this lot please visit theArtist or Maker: Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756-1827)Provenance: ProvenanceSale, Sotheby's, London, 1 April 1976, lot 137Private Collection, UKLiteratureJ. Grego,Rowlandson the Caricaturist, London, 1880, vol. II, p. 253, ill. (etching)EngravedHand-coloured etching produced by Thomas Tegg of Cheapside in 1813, titled 'Batchelor's fare, bread cheese and kisses'.