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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

Thomas Rowlandson, September 1785

Mock Turtle

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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)

Thomas Rowlandson, 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)

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, December 26, 1788

Hand-colored caricature print of five exaggerated male heads with wigs and cravats, titled Oddities, 1792.

Oddities

Thomas Rowlandson, January 1792

Hand-colored caricature print of five exaggerated male heads in wigs and period coats, with grotesque expressions.

Oddities

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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]

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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]

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 1803

Hand-coloured caricature of an oversized crowned figure beside a guillotine, with soldiers and speech bubbles, 1804.

The Imperial Coronation

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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]

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, June 23, 1806

Engraving of Mary Magdalene reclining in a rocky grotto beside a skull, cross and wreath.

St. Mary Magdalen Reclining in a Grotto

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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, November 13, 1805

Engraving of a reclining woman in a rocky grotto beside a skull, cross and wreath, gazing upward.

St. Mary Magdalen Reclining in a Grotto

Hand-colored caricature of two elderly antiquarians in fashionable coats examining Egyptian sculptures, sarcophagi and hierog

Antiquarians à la Greque

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, May 17, 1807

Engraving of Calypso holding Ulysses, a child with armour, and Mercury descending from the sky in a wooded landscape.

Calypso trying to detain Ulysses as a child prepares his armour at right and Mercury falls from the sky

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of a reclining woman in a rocky grotto with a skull, cross, and wreath, with Latin text below.

St. Mary Magdalen Reclining in a Grotto

Hand-colored print of a tailor disturbed at work by a woman shouting while carrying cucumbers, with a boy and a cat in a clut

Miseries of Human Life: While Deep in Study and Lost in Thought in the Complicated Profession of a Taylor and All on…

Nicolaus Heideloff, October 1807

Engraving of two classical herm figures on pedestals: a draped nymph at left and a bearded Silvanus with leaf wreath at right

Two Terms, a Nymph at left Silvanus at right

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1530-50

Engraving of a bearded man opening a large urn from which a woman emerges, with winged allegorical figures above.

Epimetheus opening Pandora's box

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Colored caricature of an overloaded stagecoach outside the Maidenhead Inn, with passengers, luggage, and dogs in chaotic moti

Miseries of Travelling: the Overloaded Coach

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, February 1, 1807

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

Thomas Rowlandson, November 10, 1807

Engraving of a standing flayed male figure with exposed muscles, holding a long staff against horizontal hatched lines.

Flayed man seen frontally, holding a stick

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1531-76

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

Thomas Rowlandson, July 22, 1808

Engraving of a flayed man seen from behind, holding a rope, with exposed muscles against horizontal line hatching.

Flayed man seen from behind, holding a rope

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1531-76

Engraving of an elderly bearded man in a hooded robe asleep, hands on a cross, with a skull and candle beside him.

St. Francis de Paul

Engraving of a flayed male figure with visible muscles carrying a tree branch over his head against a hatched background.

Flayed man holding the branch of a tree

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1531-76

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!

Thomas Rowlandson, July 12, 1808

Engraving of Mary Magdalen reclining with her head raised, leaning on a cross beside a tree stump.

Mary Magdalen Meditating

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!

Thomas Rowlandson, July 8, 1808

Engraving of a kneeling nun in a veil praying with clasped hands before a monstrance on an altar at left.

St. Claire

Claude Mellan, 1667

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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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!!

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, September 15, 1808

Engraving of a bishop with a crozier stopping an emperor in Roman dress at a columned entrance, with onlookers and a city str

St. Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan, Turning Back Emperor Theodosius

Claude Mellan, 1681

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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, March 15, 1809

Engraving of a woman resting her head on her hand beside a book and crook, with sheep grazing under an oak tree.

St. Genevieve

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

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Thomas Rowlandson, November 19, 1808