There are apparently a few drawings on the subject but this description fits,
especially with reference to the watch. There is no image.
Rowlandson would seem the first choice but his drawings are more detailed.
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/810682/the-irish-footman
The Irish Footman.
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Overview
Creator:
After George Moutard Woodward (1760-1809) (designer)
Creation Date:
published 25 Mar 1808
RCIN
810682
Description:
A footman carries a sundial into the sitting room, where the master is
laid up with gout. He is furious, as the footman could not set his watch by the
sundial, but instead dug up the sundial itself !
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From: "Schechner, Sara" <sche...@fas.harvard.edu>
To: "Sundial List (sundial@uni-koeln.de)" <sundial@uni-koeln.de>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 4:35 PM
Subject: Rowlandson sketch?
Does anyone know the artist who did the sketch of a foolish servant who digs up
a sundial in order to answer his gouty master’s inquiry about the time? It
looks to me like Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), but I have been unable to
identify it or a collection that contains it. I have put an image in this
Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7skufivsr5vfunh/Dug%20up%20sundial.jpg
Thanks!
Sara
Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D.
David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific
Instruments
Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617-496-9542 | Fax: 617-496-5932 | sche...@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi.html
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