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Thomas Rowlandson

493 works

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Hand-colored 1789 print of a vaulted tavern cellar with a woman in a white hat, men smoking and drinking, and a dog.

Grog on Board

1789

Hand-colored print of men brawling and gambling around a round table, with raised chairs, pistols, and scattered coins.

A Kick-up at a Hazard Table

published 1787

Hand-colored print of a busy market square with stepped-gable houses, horse carts, stalls and a tall column with a statue.

Place de Meir at Antwerp

1797

Hand-colored etching of spectators watching monkeys in a tower room with a fireplace, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1799.

The Monkey Room in the Tower

published 1799

Hand-colored print of a crowded street market with a mountebank on a stage, cooking vendors, a couple embracing, and a dog.

Dr. Botherum, the Mountebank

1800

Colored print of an alchemist and assistant at a furnace in a cluttered laboratory, with a couple embracing in the doorway.

Hocus Pocus, or Searching for the Philosopher's Stone

1800

Hand-colored caricature of a skeleton rider trampling merchants with food goods, beside a statue and a devil, 1800.

Downfall of Monopoly in 1800

published 1800

Hand-colored caricature print of a dense crowd of exaggerated faces in period hats and wigs behind a diagonal lattice.

Odd-Characters

published 1801

Hand-colored print of a terrified lawyer in wig fleeing skeletons on horseback past a Road to Hell signpost.

The Lawyers Last Circuit

published 1802

Hand-colored etching of people tumbling and scrambling down a grassy hill beneath a tree in Greenwich Park.

One Tree Hill, Greenwich Park

1802

Red leather book cover with gold border and crest, titled Caricatures, volume II.

Caricatures (volume II)

1756

Colored sketch of fashionable women and attendants in a dressing room, with a feathered headdress and a mirror.

Dressing for a Birthday

1788

Hand-colored drawing of a man in a blue coat and red hat pondering at a desk with a ledger, a woman seated by a window.

A Money Scrivener

1801

Colored print of a caricatured barber shop in 1789, with a barber woman, a shaved customer, and a wig maker at work.

A Penny Barber

1789

Colored sketch of carts racing down a village street, with figures thrown from overturned carts and onlookers at an inn.

A Cart Race

1788

Hand-colored sketch of a grey racehorse and jockeys racing past a crowd of spectators, carriages, and running dogs.

The High-mettled Racer

1789

Colored sketch of jockeys and grooms leading horses across a racecourse under a pale sky with clouds.

The Course

probably 1789

Colored print of a stampeding ox scattering a crowd on a bridge near a church tower and sailing ships.

The Overdrove Ox

1787

Hand-colored oval etching of an older man in a red coat holding a seated woman's hand, with a horse and tree behind them.

The Enamoured Sportsman

1756

Hand-colored print of four fashionable women at two windows of a brick building, with hats, curls and painted signage.

First and Second Floor

published 1791

Hand-colored print of dancers performing on a stage before a crowded tiered theatre filled with spectators in period dress.

The Prospect before us, No. 2

published 1791

Caricature of a woman in a corset and feathered hat, with a man in blue clutching her laces, drawn in 1791.

A Little Tighter

1791

Hand-colored 1791 caricature of two kneeling men aiming pistols at each other at close range in a sawpit.

Slugs in a Sawpit

1791

Hand-colored print of a crowd scattering in panic as a storm hits a street, with a carriage, horses, umbrellas and flying hat

A Squall in Hyde Park

1791

Hand-colored print of two seated women in 1790s bonnets and dresses, one holding a fan, by Thomas Rowlandson.

Beauties

published 1792

Hand-colored caricature of a crowded 18th-century dinner table with wigged diners, a servant, and a framed view of Versailles

La Table d'Hote

published 1792

Hand-colored caricature of bewigged lawyers in a cluttered court room, one gesturing while another reads a large document.

Botheration

1793

Hand-colored print of a London street jam with carriages, a white horse, scaffolding workers, and shouting crowds.

Miseries of London

published 1807

Print of a crowded circular cockpit with two fighting roosters surrounded by shouting men in top hats.

Royal Cock Pit

published 1808

Hand-colored caricature of a kneeling doctor in a blue coat pleading before a standing woman in a veil beside medicine bottle

Doctor Gallipot placing his Fortune at the feet of his Mistress

1808

Hand-colored etching of crowded theatre boxes and galleries with caricatured spectators, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1809.

The Boxes

published 1809

Hand-colored 1809 caricature of livestock facing men in top hats outside a cottage with a cattle life insurance sign.

Insurable Cattle

published 1809