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Thomas Rowlandson

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Watercolor of a horse at a trough under a tree, a carriage on the left, and figures and a dog before a timber inn.

Watering Horses

c. 1800-1810

Pen and wash drawing of a seated woman in a wide-brimmed hat and ruffled dress, gazing right against a cloudy sky.

Lady Elliott, Commonly Called Dolly The Tall

1775-1827

Pen and wash drawing of fashionably dressed figures crowding a lobby with panelled doors and a wall lamp.

Box-Lobby Loungers

1785

Pen and watercolor drawing of riders in red coats with hounds in a field, with a castle on a hill behind trees.

Landscape with Hunting Scene

1780s

Hand-colored print of passengers pushing a rowboat through surf on a stormy beach, with sailboats and dark clouds behind.

Embarking from Brighthelmstone to Dieppe

1787

Watercolor sketch of postboys with horses and a red coach outside an inn, a man carrying a trunk, and a dog.

Postboys and Posthorses at the White Hart Inn

1787

Etching of two walking men beside a cart carrying a seated, wigged man with a book, under a caption about Dalblair.

Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides: Frontispiece

1786

Ink caricature of two men walking arm in arm up a city street, one holding a walking stick and the other gesturing with his h

Walking up the High Street, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Pen and ink engraving of three caricatured men in tricorn hats walking past a woman in a bonnet, with a caption below.

Setting Out from Edinburgh, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etched caricature of two men in tricorn hats embracing in a stone passage, with a standing onlooker at left and a figure at r

The Embrace, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etching of two men conversing at a candlelit table in an interior, with a dog at their feet and a quoted caption below.

Chatting, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etching of a man pouring tea for a seated woman while another man sits at a table in an interior with a candle.

Tea, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etching of two men on a ship deck, one gesturing while the other clutches a rope tied to a mast, with rigging visible.

Sailing Among the Hebrides, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1786: a man feeds a fish to a seated companion while women with baskets watch on a shore.

Scottifiying the Palate, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etching of two seated men in a tavern interior, one gesturing and one looking up anxiously at a book on a table.

The Recovery, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Rowlandson caricature of an 1786 inn bedroom with a gown hung as a curtain between two beds, a spider and a worried sitter.

Lodging at M'Queen's, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etching of a breakfast scene with seated figures, a servant with a tray, an infant, and busts on the wall.

Veronica A Breakfast Conversation, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Pen and ink caricature of a man in a feathered hat beating a seated writer with a cane in a cluttered study.

Revising for the Second Edition, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etched caricature of three men in period dress walking in procession past a stone wall, one holding a candle and one a lanter

The Procession, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etching of two men arguing in a library over books, with a third man watching from a doorway and coins scattered on the floor

The Contest at Auckinleck, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etched caricature of a journalist in period dress striding over rocky ground, holding a scroll and a book, with a ruined arch

The Journalist, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etching of a standing man with a book and a kneeling woman with clasped hands in a plain stone-walled interior.

The Reconciliation, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etching of a caricatured man in a wig gesturing among seated theatre patrons in a crowded Drury Lane pit.

Imitations and Drury-Lane Theatre, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etching of a kitchen scene: a man in a feathered hat and a woman with a knife at a table, with game birds and a lobster.

Wit and Wisdom, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Etching of a dancing man in a wig among kilted Highlanders on a hilltop, with sea and a sailboat in the distance.

The Dance of the Dun-Can, from Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides

1786

Watercolor caricature of four exaggerated figures, including an elderly man with a cane and a heavyset man in a wheeled chair

Doctor

late 1800s or early 1900s

Pen and watercolor drawing of a prisoner climbing down a rope from a barred tower window as a guard aims a musket.

Escape of French Prisoners

c. 1776-1827

Pen and watercolor caricature of elderly women crowding an auctioneer holding a bowl, with curiosities on shelves above.

Old Maids at a Sale of Curiosities

c. 1776-1827

Pen and watercolor drawing of a Cornish cottage with cattle, a horse, figures and trees along a rural road.

Launcetown Cornwall

c. 1789

Watercolor street scene of a crowd at an auction of old houses near Westminster Abbey, with an auctioneer and lot-numbered bu

Demolition of Old Houses to the North of Westminster Abbey

1800

Hand-coloured print of an inn courtyard in chaos, with people fleeing a fire, horses rearing, and pigs scattering.

The Inn Yard on Fire

1791

Hand-colored print of a bedroom scene with a seated man, a woman pulling on a stocking, and a woman in bed.

Four o'Clock in Town

1788