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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