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Thomas Rowlandson

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Hand-colored caricature of a fair with a swordsman on stage and a panicked crowd fleeing an escaped animal.

Sports of a Country Fair. Part the Third

1810

Hand-colored 1828 caricature of fashionable women with towering feathered hats and voluminous gowns in a drawing room.

A La Mode

1828

Hand-colored print of a crowded Portsmouth quay with sailors, barrels, moored ships and the Ship Tavern sign.

Portsmouth Point

1814

Hand-colored caricature of crowds and crippled men racing up a hill past townhouses, hats flying, a dog nearby.

Bath Races, from Tegg's Caricatures no. 49

published November 20, 1810

Hand-colored caricature of a chaotic ballroom brawl, with fighting men, startled dancers and crowded spectators under a chand

The Gig Shop or Kicking up a Breeze at Nell Hammiltons Hop

published February 16, 1811

Hand-colored print of a crowded exhibition room with paintings covering the walls and visitors in period dress.

Exhibition Room, Somerset House

January 1, 1808

Aquatint of Vauxhall Gardens showing a crowd in period dress under trees, with an orchestra gallery and diners at left.

Vaux-hall

June 28, 1785

Hand-coloured etching of a crowded hall with spectators around a carriage, under a sign reading Bullock's Museum of Natural C

Exhibition at Bullock's Museum of Bonaparte's Carriage Taken at Waterloo

January 10, 1816

Rowlandson watercolor of a couple dining at a table with servants bringing plates, a dog beneath the cloth, and a folding scr

A Couple at Table with Servants

18th-19th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of a rider struggling with a rearing white horse before an inn with onlookers.

Dr. Syntax with a Balky Horse Before an Inn

18th-19th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a street with timber houses, a medieval gate, horses, a carriage and pedestrians.

City View with Medieval Gate (perhaps York)

1775-1827

Pen and ink sketch of a bearded man in a tricorn hat leading two oxen pulling a cart along a rough road.

Going Sick to the Rear

ca. 1815

Watercolor of a harbor at low tide with beached boats, small figures, cottages and sailboats on the water under clouds.

Harbor scene with the tide out, and beached boats

1775-1827

Pen and watercolor drawing of a busy barber's shop with lathered customers, wigs, dogs fighting on the floor, and a reading m

The Barber's Shop

1785-1805

Pen and watercolor drawing of a river town with sailing boats, castle ruins, a stone arched bridge, and hills.

Carmarthen Castle, Wales

1797

Watercolor of a woman in a white dress blown by wind in a boat while men and onlookers on a dock react nearby.

Easterly Winds

ca. 1810

Gray wash drawing of a jockey waving his cap on a galloping horse while a man watches on the right.

How to Escape Losing

ca. 1791

Pen and ink drawing of a busy harbor with sailing ships, rowboats, and figures on the quay.

Harbor scene

1775-1827

Pen and ink drawing of oxen and a horse hauling a felled log past trees and rolling hills.

Landscape with Oxen and Felled Tree

1775-1827

Watercolor of a river ford with rowing boats, a crowd by a thatched inn, a horse and cart, and a sailing ship on the water.

The Inn at the Ford

1775-1827

Watercolor landscape of gnarled trees beside a rushing stream, with a frightened couple and a snake on a path.

Landscape with rushing stream and a couple on the bank, frightened by a snake

1775-1827

Watercolor of travelers riding and mounting donkeys at a post beneath a stone archway, with onlookers and a dog.

Pleasure of a Poste aux Anes, from Sentimental Travels

ca. 1821

Pencil sketch of figures gathered by a river with a boat, village and trees in the background.

"The Social Day" from the "World of Miniature"

1775-1827

Pencil sketch of an interior with a fireplace, curtained bed, and an elderly man in a gown beside a dog.

Dr. Syntax Loses His Wig

1820

Pencil sketch of men dining at a table in a vaulted interior with dogs on the floor and a hearth at right.

Dr. Syntax and the Superannuated Fox Hunters

1820

Pen and grey wash drawing of witches stirring a cauldron with a horned devil and demons watching while men observe at left.

Study for "A charm for democracy, reviewed, analyzed, and destroyed January 1, 1799" (recto and verso)

1799

Pen and ink caricature of agitated men around an easel with a Revolutionary Pot, with speech balloons and a map of Ireland.

An Irish Howl

ca. 1799

Ink caricature of Napoleon as an auctioneer selling crowns and labeled territories to a crowd of bidders, 1813.

Napoleon verkoopt gestolen goed, 1813

1813

Pen and ink caricature of a rider on a horse loaded with saddlebags labeled Hastings and Wrongs, with handwritten verses.

The Q A loaded with the spoils of India and Britain, March 6, 1788

ca. 1788

Pen sketch of a military review with marching soldiers, banners, mounted officers on horseback, and a crowd of onlookers.

A Military Review

late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a dense tree cluster on a rolling hillside with woodland fading into the distance.

Wooded hillside with deer

1780-1827

Pen and ink study of a leaning tree with dense foliage beside a clearing, with smaller trees to the right.

Study of trees

1780-1827