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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