1152 - “Rosiere”, river landscape with ruin and staffage, Robert Bowyer, “The Triumphs of Europe”, 1814

“Rosiere”, river landscape with ruin and staffage, Robert Bowyer, “The Triumphs of Europe”, 1814 coloured aquatint etching on paper, 1814, inscribed below the image “Publish'd by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall, 1814.” and titled “Rosiere.”, river landscape with buildings and a ruin with archway, tower and flight of steps in the foreground, rich staffage on the bank with a rider and several men, on the river an occupied boat, on the far bank a building with two round towers, published by R. Bowyer, London 1814, condition commensurate with age, slightly foxed and browned at the margins, marginal defects, image 22.5x32 cm (HxW), sheet size 34.5x49 cm (HxW) Robert Bowyer (1758–1834) was a British miniature painter who was appointed Miniature Painter in Ordinary to the King in 1789 and later came to prominence as a publisher. In his Historic Gallery in Schomberg House, 82 Pall Mall, he exhibited the paintings he had commissioned for an illustrated edition of David Hume's History of England. In 1814 he published in London “The Triumphs of Europe, in the Campaigns of the Years 1812, 1813, 1814” on the campaigns against Napoleon, which also contains the sheet “Rosiere”. The views of the work are based on original drawings from the collection of the Russian emperor and were executed in etching and aquatint and coloured by hand.