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Thomas Rowlandson

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Hand-colored etching of a crowded barracks interior with soldiers, women, children, swords and a suit of armor on the wall.

French Barracks

published August 12, 1791

Hand-coloured print of two dancers on stage before a crowded tiered theatre audience in 18th-century dress.

The Prospect Before Us

1791

Four-panel hand-colored caricature titled The Four Seasons of Love, showing courting and married couples in period dress.

The Four Seasons of Love

published September 15, 1814

Hand-colored caricature of wigged doctors conferring over a large patient in a canopied bed in a period interior.

The Consultation or Last Hope

published May 12, 1808

Hand-colored print of a bookshop with an author and bookseller in conversation, shelves of books, a ladder and a writing desk

Bookseller and Author

published September 25, 1784

Hand-colored caricature print in three bands showing cricket, a donkey, acrobats, and kneeling figures in red robes.

Grotesque Borders for Rooms & Halls

published July 1799

Hand-colored satirical print of surgeons performing a leg amputation on a seated patient, with skeletons and a surgeons list

Amputation

published October 17, 1793

Hand-colored caricature of two wigged men playing cards across a small round table, one shouting and one scowling.

All Fours

first published March 14, 1783 [a later reissue?]

Watercolor of ostlers changing horses at a French post house as a carriage passenger waves from the coach.

Changing Horses at a Post House in France

c. 1790

Watercolor and pen drawing of a crowded inn with patrons drinking, a wall clock, a lottery notice, and dogs.

Interior of an Inn

n.d.

Hand-colored print of a crowded auction room with an auctioneer on a podium, framed paintings on green walls, and spectators

Schilderijenveiling bij Christie's Londen

1808

Hand-colored caricature of a magistrate questioning a woman with a book while a kneeling man pleads and a bystander leans on

Swearing a Bastard Child!

December 20, 1800

Watercolour drawing of a man with a whip and a boy holding a rope tied to a pig in a rural landscape.

Man and boy with a pig

Hand-colored caricature of canvassers and voters crowding a cobbler's shop, with a feathered hat and a dog in the foreground.

Wit's Last Stake, or the Cobbling Voters and Abject Canvassers

April 22, 1784

Satirical pen and ink caricature of a row of fashionably dressed figures with feathered hats and speech bubbles, by Thomas Ro

Kings Place, or a View of M [Fox's] Best Friends

April 22, 1784

Hand-colored caricature of fashionable figures embracing, with a speech bubble reading Huzza for Ever, by Thomas Rowlandson,

The Devonshire, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes

April 12, 1784

Hand-colored caricature by Thomas Rowlandson with allegorical figures, scales, a crown, and speech bubbles around a pedestal.

A Touch on the Times

December 29, 1788

Sepia etching of two women on a striped sofa, one playing a lute and the other holding open sheet music, both in ruffled dres

The Syrens

April 10, 1787

Sepia print by Thomas Rowlandson, 1787: a woman in a plumed hat passes a gentleman and a beggar on a lamp-lit street.

Civility

1787

Hand-coloured print of a crowded Covent Garden Theatre interior with tiered galleries, boxes, audience and two performers on

Covent Garden Theatre

July 20, 1786

Etching of a man in a wig offering an apple to a feathered-hat woman, with two other fashionable women watching.

The Golden Apple, or the Modern Paris

March 2, 1785

Satirical print of men in a drunken party around a long table, with bottles strewn on the floor and a ballot box on the mante

The Brilliants

January 15, 1801

Watercolor drawing of two drovers in hats wrestling a pair of rearing grey horses, one man raising a whip overhead.

Drovers with a Pair of Rearing Horses

Pen and watercolor drawing of two cavalry soldiers clashing on rearing horses, with a fallen rider in the lower right.

Cavalry Skirmish

Hand-colored print of the crowded Covent Garden Theatre interior, with tiered galleries, audience, and performers on stage.

Covent Garden Theatre

1792

Hand-colored print of a skeleton pouring wine for an old man beside a young woman on a sofa, with a soldier at the window.

The Honey Moon (The English Dance of Death, plate 13)

August 1, 1814

Hand-colored print of a skeleton wheeling a drunk man in a barrow past a woman with a cane and a thatched inn.

The Sot (The English Dance of Death, plate 12)

July 1814

Etched caricature of men crowding around a roulette wheel on a table, with exaggerated faces and gestures.

Private Amusement

January 1, 1786

Caricature etching of a horned devil wrestling a man with shears, with running men and India House in the background.

Great Cry and Little Wool

December 22, 1783

Satirical etching of a woman on a donkey labeled with a bill, with a man, a seated stout man, and a Plan of Economy figure be

The Departure

April 29, 1784

Hand-colored caricature of two men, one in a wig peering through a monocle, one in a striped nightshirt, with verse below.

The Incurable

April 4, 1784

Hand-colored 1784 print of two men in period dress kicking a huge flying trunk, by Thomas Rowlandson.

Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at Football

February 7, 1784

Hand-colored caricature of an infant Hercules strangling serpents with politicians' heads on a Shield of Chatham disc.

The Infant Hercules

February 3, 1784

Hand-colored satire of a man in a blue coat luring rats with gold coins and a pension paper beside a Treasury sign.

The Apostate Jack Robinson, The Political Rat Catcher-N.B. Rats Taken Alive!

March 1, 1784

Mock Turtle

January 24, 1785

Hand-colored print of a very tall man in pink coat surrounded by surprised, fashionably dressed onlookers in a room.

The Surprising Irish Giant of St. James's Street

March 27, 1785

Ink caricature by Thomas Rowlandson showing an archer aiming a bow beside wrestling men and a fallen figure with speech ballo

The Fall of Achilles

January 7, 1785

Pen and ink caricature of two men walking arm in arm up a cobbled street, one holding a walking stick.

Walking Up the High Street, Edinburgh (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First)

May 15, 1786

Hand-colored caricature print with six male heads in a row, wearing crowns, a liberty cap and a feathered hat, with captions

The Political Hydra

December 26, 1788

Hand-colored caricature print of five exaggerated male heads with wigs and cravats, titled Oddities, 1792.

Oddities

January 1792

Hand-colored caricature print of five exaggerated male heads in wigs and period coats, with grotesque expressions.

Oddities

January 1794

Hand-colored print of six vignettes showing a woman applying makeup before a mirror, with caricatured expressions.

Six Stages of Mending a Face, Dedicated with respect to the Right Hon-ble. Lady Archer

May 29, 1792

Hand-colored caricature of two wigged men playing cards at a round table, one in blue coat and one in orange coat.

Two Penny Cribbage

October 1, 1810

Hand-colored caricature of a pig in human dress with blue coat and spectacles beside a cottage and fence.

Collar'd Pork

July 25, 1800

Hand-colored caricature of four fashionable 1801 figures, including a monocled stout man, a woman with a parasol, and a dandy

Walking Sticks and Round-A-Bouts for the Year 1801

May 8, 1801

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

The Imperial Coronation

July 31, 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

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 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 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