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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

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

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 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

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

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

Caricature of a journalist striding over rocky ground holding a journal and a Johnson biography, with ruins and mountains beh

The Journalist, With a View of Auckinleck-or the Land of Stones (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First)

May 15, 1786

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 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 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 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

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

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 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 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

Hand-colored 1809 caricature print by Thomas Rowlandson showing a woman in blue and a man in red framed by green curtains, wi

Tegg's Complete Collection of Caricatures, Relative to Mrs. Clarke and the Circumstances Arising from the Investigati…

March 27, 1809

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-colored caricature of an elderly woman in a bonnet beside a smiling young man in bed holding a purse.

A Tit Bit for a Strong Stomach

June 20, 1809

Hand-colored caricature of two wigged men playing cribbage at a small round table, one leaning forward with cards.

Twopenny Cribbage

[October 1, 1799], reissued 1810

Hand-colored print of a crowd in fashionable dress gathered before a Paris print shop window, with a tray-carrying vendor at

Les Musards de la Rue du Coq à Paris (Dawdlers of the Rue Coq, Paris)

ca. 1810

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

Colored caricature of crowded theatre gallery spectators with exaggerated faces leaning over a rail beneath an arch.

Pidgeon Hole. A Convent Garden Contrivance to Coop up the Gods

February 20, 1811

Hand-colored caricature of a gluttonous man in green sprawled on a table while a woman reaches up with a tray in a kitchen.

Dinners Drest in the Neatest Manner

October 1811

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 smoking men around a Geneva barrel, with a small Napoleon figure shouting atop it in smoke.

Funcking the Corsican

December 6, 1813

Hand-colored caricature of a figure in blue tossed skyward by a ring of men holding a blanket, crown and scepter nearby.

Friends and Foes-Up He Goes-Sending the Corsican Munchausen to St. Cloud's

December 12, 1813

Satirical hand-colored print in three panels: a crowned tyrant, a weeping man on a rock, and a hanged man on a gallows.

Boney Turned Moralist

May 1, 1814

Hand-colored caricature of a man in green kicking a fleeing figure while swinging a cane, with a gallows labeled Isle of Elba

The Affectionate Farewell, or Kick for Kick

April 17, 1814

Hand-colored caricature of a defeated ruler seated among ribbons and skulls, with allied officers at left and a winged figure

A Delicate Finish to a French Usurper

April 20, 1814

Hand-colored caricature print of a uniformed man lifting a fox-headed figure as hounds run toward him across a hillside.

Coming in at the Death of the Corsican Fox, Scene the Last

April 12, 1814

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

Hand-colored caricature of a fleeing uniformed man beside a devil, a flaming sword above, and a fallen throne with crowns.

The Tyrant of the Continent is Fallen, Europe is Free, England Rejoices

May 1, 1814

Hand-colored caricature of a green-coated figure at a balcony with a skeleton, devil and officers, overlooking Paris.

The Corsican and His Bloodhounds at the Window of the Thuilleries Looking Over Paris

April 16, 1815

Caricature of a man in a military coat caged on a donkey cart, surrounded by a jeering crowd, 1815 hand-coloured print.

A Rare Acquisition to the Royal Menagerie

July 28, 1815

Hand-colored satirical print of a nude central figure surrounded by demons, with fallen soldiers and burning landscape below.

Hell Hounds Rallying Round the Idol of France

April 8, 1815

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

Satirical etching of fashionable women in large hats and ruffled gowns in an interior, with a small dog and a towering feathe

The Supplemental Magazine

January 1, 1786

Etching of a theatre interior in chaos, with falling debris, torn curtains and a panicked crowd in period dress.

Chaos is Come Again!

February 4, 1791

Satirical etching of ragged dancers and musicians in a street before a theatre, with a man collecting coins from onlookers.

The Prospect Before Us, Humanely Inscrib'd to all those Professors of Music and Dancing Whom the Cap May Fit

January 13, 1791

Hand-colored caricature of two kneeling duellists aiming pistols in a saw-pit, with scattered weapons and a spectator above.

Slugs in a Saw-Pit

October 28, 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

Hand-colored print of a crowded Paris street with fashionable figures before a print shop window displaying prints and books.

Les Musards de la Rue du Coq à Paris (Dawdlers of the Rue Coq)

ca. 1810

Hand-colored caricature print comparing seated Englishmen and animated Frenchmen in November, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1788.

Englishmen in November, Frenchmen in November

November 25, 1788

Hand-colored print of a crowded theater lobby with fashionable men and women in period dress beneath a playbill and wall lamp

Box Lobby Loungers

January 5, 1811

Watercolor and ink drawing of men brawling around a gaming table, one raising a broken chair above his head.

Kick Up at a Hazard Table

1787