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Thomas Rowlandson

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Hand-colored caricature of a councillor in a white wig and blue cloak gesturing while holding papers, with a startled onlooke

A Counciller [sic]

January 1, 1801

Hand-colored 1802 caricature of an elderly man in a plumed hat leading a laughing woman in a white gown down a street.

The Successful Fortune Hunter, or Captain Shelalee Leading Miss Marrowfat to the Temple of Hymen

1802

Hand-colored caricature of a young man in a high collar, frilled shirt and yellow breeches holding a black hat.

The Monstrous Craw; or a New-Discovered Animal

March 1, 1802

Hand-colored caricature of a musical family: a stout man singing, a woman playing cello, children with drum and triangle, and

A Musical Family

August 30, 1802

Hand-colored caricature of a stout man in blue and a thin woman in pink facing each other, nose to nose, 1802.

Doctor Convex and Lady Concave

November 20, 1802

Hand-colored 1802 caricature of four card players at a table, with feathered turbans and handwritten speech above them.

How to Pluck a Goose

June 10, 1802

Hand-colored caricature of a stout spectacled man in blue peering at a crowned figure in a red robe holding a scepter.

A New French Phantasmagoria

1803

Hand-coloured caricature of an oversized crowned figure beside a guillotine, with soldiers and speech bubbles, 1804.

The Imperial Coronation

July 31, 1804

Pen and ink caricature of a seated woman and two men, with books labeled The Right of Woman and The Duty of Man.

Melpomene in the Dumps, or Child's Play Defended by Theatrical Monarchs

December 14, 1804

Hand-colored caricature of the very fat Daniel Lambert in a blue coat, supported by two men, with onlookers and a servant bea

Dan-l. Lambert the Wonderful Great Pumpkin of Little Brittain [sic]

May 4, 1806

Hand-colored caricature of a diving suit figure hauling a 10 per cent barrel from the sea beside a boat labeled The Experimen

A Diving Machine on a New Construction

May 31, 1806

Hand-colored caricature of dogs with human faces sniffing tax notices while a man watches from a window above.

Political Terriers Hunting for New Taxes

June 23, 1806

Hand-colored caricature of a man operating a magic lantern on a cliff, projecting toward a figure on the Calais coast.

Experiments at Dover or Master Charley's Magic Lanthorn

July 21, 1806

Hand-colored caricature of a rider on a donkey fleeing a coast while a British lion sprays water from a cliff.

The Departure from the Coast, or the End of the Farce of Invasion

October 1, 1805

Hand-colored caricature of Napoleon in a fever clutching his breeches while physicians in wigs examine him after Nelson's vic

Nap Buonaparte in a Fever on Receiving the Extraordinary Gazette of Nelson's Victory Over the Combined Fleets

November 13, 1805

Hand-colored caricature of two elderly antiquarians in fashionable coats examining Egyptian sculptures, sarcophagi and hierog

Antiquarians à la Greque

July 14, 1805

Hand-colored caricature of an old man clinging to Sinbad's shoulders while wading through a muddy political swamp.

The Old Man of the Sea, Sticking to the Shoulders of Sinbad the Sailor

May 17, 1807

Colored caricature of an overloaded stagecoach outside the Maidenhead Inn, with passengers, luggage, and dogs in chaotic moti

Miseries of Travelling: the Overloaded Coach

February 15, 1807

Etching of a crowded London street with tangled carriages, shouting coachmen, scaffolding and a spilled coin scene.

Miseries of London: Going Out to Dinner

February 1, 1807

Etching of fishermen unloading fish from a boat on a beach, with sailing ships and a dog in the distance.

Strand waar een vissersboot uitlaadt

1787

Hand-colored drawing of a man and a woman talking before a village house, with onlookers and a child with a basket nearby.

Man en vrouw in een dorp

1766

Hand-colored caricature of a stout man in blue coat peering through a telescope at a comet near the sun, with ships offshore.

John Bull Making Observations on the Comet

November 10, 1807

Hand-colored caricature of a crowned many-headed beast confronting a Spanish figure with a sword, with ships on the sea.

The Beast As Described In The Revelations, Chap. 13, Resembling Napoleon Buonaparte

July 22, 1808

Hand-colored caricature of a spider with a human face in a bicorne hat at the center of a web, surrounded by labeled flies.

The Corsican Spider in His Web!

July 12, 1808

Hand-colored caricature of a leopard-spotted man with a black hat fighting off greyhounds, with a gunman and animals on the r

The Corsican Tiger at Bay!

July 8, 1808

Hand-colored caricature of a Napoleon-like figure in a bicorne hat cradling two infants, with two more babies sleeping in cra

The Corsican Nurse Soothing the Infants of Spain

July 12, 1808

Hand-colored caricature of a small Napoleon in a blue coat and cocked hat facing a crowned, angry eagle in a landscape.

Napoleon The Little in a Rage with His Great French Eagle!!

September 20, 1808

Hand-colored caricature of a fox with a human face in a plumed hat beside a rooster, with grapes on a vine at left.

The Fox and the Grapes

September 15, 1808

Hand-colored caricature of a startled uniformed figure with a sword, facing clouds of evils, British thunder and frogs in mar

Horrid Visions of Nappy Napp'd at Last

August 23, 1808

Hand-colored print of an armored knight attacking a many-headed hydra with caricatured human faces, by Thomas Rowlandson.

The Champion of Oakhampton, Attacking the Hydra of Gloucester Place

March 15, 1809

Hand-colored caricature of a huge smiling head over uniformed men with speech bubbles, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1809.

The Head of the Family in Good Humour

January 15, 1809

Title page with hand-colored caricature faces crowding an oval border around lettering for The Caricature Magazine, 1808.

Title Page, The Caricature Magazine, or Mirror of Mirth

November 19, 1808