Thomas Rowlandson Watercolour Her attention is directed toward

Her attention is directed toward a small table clock and an open book or letter

whose niece he married in 1672

while small potted plants and broken terracotta fragments animate the ground around him

addressing a group of attentive schoolgirls beneath a tree in an idyllic garden setting

His ability to capture atmospheric effects—the fading light

Thomas Rowlandson Watercolour Her attention is directed towardAbout the Print This exquisite hand colored aquatint depicts the Surrey Institution, one of London's notable early 19th century cultural establishments. Created in 1809, this print is plate 81 from the celebrated three volume publication The Microcosm of London (1808 1810), one of the most important visual records of Georgian London at the height of the Regency period. The Surrey Institution, founded in 1808 on Blackfriars Road in Southwark, was