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Thomas Rowlandson

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Engraved portrait of a seated man in spectacles holding a quill beside a desk with inkwells and papers.

Jeremiah Donovan. Engraving by J. Hopwood, senior, 1809, after T. Rowlandson

Hand-colored print of jockeys preparing horses at a racecourse, with crowds, tents, a watchtower and rolling hills behind.

Preparing to Start

1811

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

Hand-colored print of a picnic and fishing party on a wooded riverbank beside a pale rock, with a small dog in the foreground

View on Sir John Moreshead's Estate at Blisland near Bodmin, Cornwall

1805

Hand-colored etching of a sailing ship and small boats on a Cornish estuary under a dark, cloudy sky, with wooded hills.

Rowlandson's Sketches from Nature: Fowey, Cornwall

1809

Hand-colored print of a horse-drawn wagon on a country road beside a thatched cottage, with rolling hills beyond.

Rowlandson's Sketches from Nature: Taunton Vale, Somersetshire

1809

Hand-colored print of men in top hats gathered in a colonnaded courtyard, one figure in a purple cloak blowing a horn.

Doctor Syntax at Liverpool, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax

c. 1812

Hand-colored caricature of a chaotic bookshop with flying books, a man on a ladder, and a seated woman reading by a window.

Doctor Syntax and the Book Seller, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax

c. 1812

Hand-colored print of a domestic interior with a seated man in a wig, a woman in pink, and startled visitors at a doorway by

Doctor Syntax Returned from His Tour, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax

c. 1812

Hand-colored print of a clergyman in a carriage with a crowd of villagers before a church and a country house.

Doctor Syntax Taking Possession of his Living, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax

c. 1812

Hand-colored print of villagers dancing in a lane before a thatched cottage, with musicians and onlookers beneath a large tre

Doctor Syntax Rural Sport, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax

c. 1812

Hand-colored print of a seated man in a plumed hat sketching farm animals under a tree while elegant onlookers stand nearby.

Doctor Syntax Drawing After Nature, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax

c. 1812

Hand-colored print of men in top hats examining a white horse outside a thatched inn, with dogs and a rider nearby.

Doctor Syntax Sells Grizzle, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax

c. 1812

Hand-colored print of red-coated cavalry at a review on rolling hills, with spectators on horseback and in a carriage in the

Doctor Syntax at a Review, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax

c. 1812

Hand-colored print of a gentleman in black beside a churchyard with tombstones, a gravedigger, a white horse and hills.

Doctor Syntax Meditating on the Tomb Stones, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax

c. 1812

Hand-colored print of a ruined castle on a rocky shore, with a man tumbling into the water below.

Doctor Syntax Tumbling in the Water, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax

c. 1812

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