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Thomas Rowlandson

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A Jemmy

December 1, 1790

Caricature of a dandy in a tricorn hat raising a monocle, wearing striped stockings and holding a cane, with a Proverbs verse

A Jessamy

December 1, 1790

A Smart

December 1, 1790

Hand-colored satirical print of a mannered man in a blue coat beside a woman with a feathered hairstyle, by Thomas Rowlandson

Italian Affectation, Real Characters

1786-91

Satirical etching of an exaggerated man clutching his chest beside a woman in towering feathered hair among bushes.

Italian Affectation, Real Characters

September 1, 1780

Hand-colored caricature of a stout man holding a blue tankard beside a barrel, with pipe-smoking figures in the background.

Sr. Samuel House

[1780] reissued 1786-91

Engraving of Britannia lifting a caricatured man by the leg while another flees across clouds, with a shield and spear.

Britannia Roused, or the Coalition Monsters Destroyed

February 3, 1784

Hand-colored caricature of a woman parachuting over a crowd in a city square, with a balloon above and an obelisk below.

The Parachute or a Sage Lady's Second Experiment

September 1785

Hand-colored caricature of an elderly man in a wig and red coat with a young woman in a bonnet and grey cloak beside him.

Lust and Avarice

November 29, 1788

Hand-colored caricature of a stout man in a dark coat whose buttons strain as a thin man in red tugs at his waistcoat.

A Little Bigger

May 18, 1819

Engraved caricature of a woman with a parasol and fur muff in exaggerated 1801 fashion, titled Light Summer Cloathing.

Light Summer Cloathing [sic]

September 10, 1801

Etched caricature of a grotesque bronze figure on a pedestal, with two men in period dress looking on and handwritten dialogu

Taste

April 2, 1801

Hand-colored print of a stout man drinking from a bowl as a skeleton looms behind him beside scattered bottles and jugs.

The Last Drop

April 5, 1801

Hand-colored caricature of a man in a green coat and yellow trousers with a huge wide-brimmed hat and a twisted walking stick

Light Summer Hat and Fashionable Walking Sticks for the Year 1801

July 10, 1801

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 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 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

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 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 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

Satirical etching of a bishop in bed with a woman, a mitre and crozier nearby, and a list for promotion.

The Bishop and His Clarke, or, A Peep into Paradise

February 26, 1809

Hand-coloured caricature of a tall thin woman with a fan and a stout kneeling man in blue beside a mausoleum.

Dropsy Courting Consumption

October 25, 1810

Hand-colored etching of a couple kissing among Egyptian mummies, sphinx statues, and classical vases in a cluttered room.

Modern Antiquities

1811?

Hand-colored caricature of three men haggling in a crowded gallery of gilded framed paintings, one holding a monocle.

Italian Picture Dealers Humbugging My Lord Anglaise

May 30, 1812

Hand-colored caricature of a running uniformed man with a hare, scattering maps of European territories, by Thomas Rowlandson

Head Runner or Runaways from the Leipzic Fair

March 2, 1814

Satirical etching of an ecstatic, round-faced preacher with raised hands, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1825.

Pie-Us Ecstacy - or Godliness (the Itinerant Preachers) Great Gain

November 19, 1825

Hand-coloured caricature of a servant struggling to fasten the breeches of a very stout man in a powdered wig.

A Little Bigger

May 18, 1791

Hand-colored caricature of a man in a plumed hat riding a crowned white horse atop a globe, with labels reading Power and Lib

A Great Man on His Hobby Horse

1803