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Thomas Rowlandson

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Grey wash print of a woman in a plumed hat seated while a man kneels and gazes up at her beside a drape.

Courtship in High Life

December 15, 1785

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?]

Dark maroon folio cover with embossed Gothic corners and gold lettering reading Rowlandson's Caricature Etchings, Boswell's T

Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides: Folio Cover

1786

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

The military lover

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

Etching of two women with Fox badges embracing men beside hanging meat, satirizing a 1784 political canvass by Rowlandson.

The Two Patriotic Duchesses on Their Canvass

April 3, 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

Etching of a woman, a dandy in a tricorn hat, and a scowling old man with a cane beside a wall marked Kings Place.

Which Way Shall I Turn Me? How Can I Decide?

ca. 1780

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

Hand-colored print of a crowded curving staircase with people falling and a classical statue in a niche.

The Exhibition "Stare-Case"

1811?

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

Hand-coloured caricature of an opera singer in gold armour before an exaggerated audience and orchestra.

John Bull at the Italian Opera

October 2, 1811

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

Public Characters

April 1, 1801

Watercolor and pen portrait of an older figure in a hat with a clay pipe, red garment and yellow neckerchief.

A Soldier's Widow

1815/1820

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

1756

Pen and wash drawing of a nude figure falling from a chariot as rearing horses rise through clouds.

The Fall of Phaeton

1756

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

Cavalry Skirmish

1756

Hand-colored print of an old sculptor carving a cherub beside a seated nude model in a cluttered classical studio.

The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus]

ca. 1800

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

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

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