Country characters no. 9: Exciseman, Thomas Rowlandson
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Traffic, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain portrait drawing
Two Jewish clothesmen are securing a parcel of cast-off garments at the door of a highly respectable mansion, whereat a buxom housemaid is disposing of her master's old apparel. In the street beyond is shown th... More
The Irish baronet and his nurse!, Thomas Rowlandson
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Grotesque borders for rooms & halls, Thomas Rowlandson
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Procession of a country corporation, Thomas Rowlandson
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Advice to mail coachmen : How to get drunk and drive all before them
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Pot fair Cambridge, the college gate, Thomas Rowlandson
"Pot fair Cambridge": pots are laid out on tables for sale. A fat divine stumbles backward as dogs fight in the foreground. A seller at right is alarmed as he threatens to fall onto her table. "The college gate... More
The Westminster mendicant, Thomas Rowlandson
The rejected candidate for Westminster has been sent forth a wanderer. The figure of Sir Cecil Wray is represented as a blind beggar ; he is resting his head and shoulders on a long staff ; under his left arm i... More
Nap in the country ; Nap in town.
A Nap in the Country, the print on top, represents the mid-day rest of a rustic pair, who, while their sheep are calmly grazing and their dog is keeping faithful watch, are, beneath the shadows of spreading tre... More
Commanders engaged at sea, Thomas Rowlandson
It appears from this print, which in the coloured editions is judiciously tinted to make it resemble a drawing, that the inactivity of our commanders at sea was attracting popular censure. In the plate we find ... More
Imitations at Drury-Lane theatre, Thomas Rowlandson
An uncoloured print of a scene at Drury Lane Theatre, a reminiscence of James Boswell when he stood up and putting his hands to his face, imitated the sound of a cow, with great success. Boswell is on the front... More
Is this your louse, Thomas Rowlandson
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An epicure, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain portrait drawing
Another Hogarth-like study, but touched with all the knowledge and spirit peculiarly the attributes of Rowlandson. An over-fed gourmand, whose hopes of happiness are evidently centred on perishable things, is e... More
Monsieur in England, Thomas Rowlandson
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John Bull in France, Thomas Rowlandson
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A sufferer for decency, Thomas Rowlandson
The interior of a barber's shop, conducted on popular principles, as the notice on the lantern has it : 'Shave with ease and expedition for one penny! It will be noticed that the lathering is accomplished on a ... More
A penny barber, Thomas Rowlandson
A stout old gentleman, enveloped in a barber's cloth, has taken his seat in the shaving-chair ; his wig is removed and his chin plenteously lathered ; the aproned barber is still employed with his soap and basi... More
A sufferer for decency, Thomas Rowlandson
The interior of a barber's shop, conducted on popular principles, as the notice on the lantern has it : 'Shave with ease and expedition for one penny! It will be noticed that the lathering is accomplished on a ... More
The paviors joy, Thomas Rowlandson
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A Colonel of the Janizaries, James Gillray
A bald man with a thick beard and moustache, in profile to right, hands joined in front of him, wearing a long ermine-trimmed gown and a hat with a full plume providing a broad canopy and a small flag. In a dou... More
English curiosity : Or the foreigner stared out of countenance
From this social caricature it seems that some distinguished foreigner was visiting this country in 1784, whose general appearance was exciting more public attention than would be considered polite. The foreign... More
Any thing will do for an officer
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Country characters no. 11: Attorney, Thomas Rowlandson
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Cries of London, No. 2 : Buy my goose, my fat goose.
A fat countrified-looking dealer is offering some fine fat geese for sale at the door of an apothecary, who, with his wife, is examining the birds with unnecessary closeness. Courtesy of Boston Public Library ... More
Country characters no. 6: Squire, Thomas Rowlandson
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Plate 4. Borders for rooms, Thomas Rowlandson
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Plate 6. Borders for rooms., Thomas Rowlandson
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Cries of London, No. 5 : Water cresses, come buy my water cresses
An old person is knocking at a door in Portland Street (Mrs. Burke's), and is solicited to buy water-cresses by a neat maiden with a pretty face and a tall shapely form ; the old reprobate is leering at the wat... More
Country characters no. 10: Steward, Thomas Rowlandson
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No. 14. Grotesque borders for halls & rooms
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Cries of London, No. 6 : All a growing, a growing. Here's flowers for ...
A smart young gardener, with a substantial cart, drawn by a donkey, has a handsome selection of various evergreens and flowers for sale ; he is standing at the door of a mansion, where a lady and little girl ar... More
Country characters no. 5: Tax gatherer, Thomas Rowlandson
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Country characters no. 12: London outrider : Or Brother Saddlebag
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Plate 5. Grotesque borders for rooms & screens
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The monkey room in the tower, Thomas Rowlandson
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Country characters no. 8: Doctor, Thomas Rowlandson
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No. 8. Borders for rooms & halls, Thomas Rowlandson
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No. 10. Borders for rooms & halls, Thomas Rowlandson
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Cries of London, No. 4 : Do you want any brick-dust
From this plate it seems that brickdust, in the artist's days, was sold like sand. A patient donkey is saddled with an enormous pannier of brick-dust, and the vendor is pouring the contents of a measure into a ... More
Country characters no. 7: Vicar, Thomas Rowlandson
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Country characters no. 2: Justice, Thomas Rowlandson
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Cries of London, No. 8 : Hot cross bunns two a penny bunns
A decent woman, wearing a white apron, and with a cloth over her basket, is supplying a patroness with a plateful of hot cross buns. A pretty woman, in a neat morning dress, is buying buns, and her children by ... More
Country characters no. 3: Barber, Thomas Rowlandson
A stout gentleman, divested of his wig, has sat down for the tonsorial process, holding in his lap the London Gazette Newspaper; the village Figaro, a highly-dried and austere personage, of marked political pro... More
Grotesque borders for rooms & halls, Thomas Rowlandson
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Country characters no. 1: Publican, Thomas Rowlandson
The parlour of a country public-house, hung round with pictures on equestrian subjects. The publican is drinking in true old-fashioned landlordlike style with the squire, a Tony Lumkin of a landed proprietor ; ... More
Cries of London, No. 1 : Buy a trap, a rat trap, buy my trap
The vendor of rat-traps is pausing before a shop decorated with such live stock as a rabbit in a hutch, and a jackdaw in a cage ; he is offering his traps to a spectacled old gentleman, who is considering his w... More
No. 11. A Lilliputian Ridotto! Borders for rooms & halls
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The sailor and the banker : Or, the firm in danger
A smart sailor of the period, returning to shore with prize money galore, and a watch, chain, and seals in either fob, neat silver shoe-buckles, and a spic-span rig-out, is calling to cash a twenty-pound note o... More
Borders for rooms & screens, Thomas Rowlandson
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Country characters no. 4: Footman, Thomas Rowlandson
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No. 12. Grotesque borders for rooms & halls
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No. 20. Grotesque borders, Thomas Rowlandson
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Cries of London, No. 7 : Old cloaths any old cloaths
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Cries of London, No. 3 : Last dying speech & confession
A street ballad singer, of the St. Giles' order, is crying the last speech of 'the unfortunate malefactors who were executed this morning:' a common enough announcement when the extreme punishment of hanging vi... More
No. 9. A pygmy cat hunt. Borders for rooms & halls
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Sadness, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain portrait drawing
This passion is represented by an old maid, who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favourite lapdog. A 'serious footman' is gravely contemplating the body of a deceased puppy, extended on a ve... More
Admiration with astonishment no. 4, Thomas Rowlandson
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No. 22. Grotesque borders for rooms & halls
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Margate bathers, Thomas Rowlandson
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Hatred or jealousy, Thomas Rowlandson
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Downfal of monopoly in 1800, Thomas Rowlandson
Death, the central figure, chases monopolizers who are in headlong flight to the left, shadowed by heavy clouds. Behind him is a statue of Britannia holding spear and cornucopia, the lion beside her dominates t... More
Veneration, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain drawing
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No. 10. Grotesque borders for halls & rooms
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Grotesque borders for rooms & halls, Thomas Rowlandson
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Elegance, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain portrait drawing
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The corporal in good quarters, Thomas Rowlandson
The marvellous influence of a red coat is the subject of the present sketch. Who can resist a dashing young soldier? The rustic beauty seems unequivocally smitten, and does not disguise the compromising fact th... More
Signiora Squalini, Thomas Rowlandson
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Diana in the straw : Or a treat for the Quornites
A hand-coloured print of a woman reading from 'Ovid's Epistles' whilst her husband has his boots removed by a young boy whilst being shown some fox cubs by a member of the Quorn hunt. Another huntsman walks up ... More
Miseries domestic. A cupboard in the parlour..
Miseries domestic - the constant intrusion of servants while you court Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his hum... More
Miseries of the country. Losing your way on foot at night in a storm o...
Miseries of the country - losing your way in a storm after having spent a cozy evening by the fire Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centurie... More
Miseries domestic. Waking in the middle of the night, in a state of ra...
Miseries domestic - spilling the water pitcher's contents over your night clothes Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known ... More
Symptons of choaking, Thomas Rowlandson
A corpulent individual has suddenly left the dinner table, under an impulse to choke ; the rest of the company are thrown into such alarm at his critical situation, that the table-cloth, soup-tureens, wine, dec... More
A country club, Thomas Rowlandson
Bunbury's original drawing of this subject is at Windsor Castle. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, ca... More
Miseries domestic. Waking in the middle of the night, in a state of ra...
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Admonition and gratitude, Thomas Rowlandson
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Implements animated. Pl. 2 : Dedicated to the housemaids and cooks of ...
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Miseries of travelling, 6, Thomas Rowlandson
Miseries of travelling - wet to the skin and forced to borrow ill-fitting clothes Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known ... More
The mischief of Methodism, Thomas Rowlandson
Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors, a popular artist in the Regency period in England.
The comforts of a modern gala, "Where now the routs full myriad.."
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A sailor at a Quakers funeral, Thomas Rowlandson
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A long headed assembly!!, Thomas Rowlandson
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Miseries of social life. Walking in a wind that cuts to the bone, with...
Miseries of social life - forced to listen to a long-winded companion while walking in a cold wind Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centurie... More
More miseries. Endeavouring to make violent love under the table and p...
More miseries - pressing the wrong foot under the table Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures... More
Practical education, Thomas Rowlandson
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The double disaster : Or new cure for love
This sketch, which is characterised by the artist's usual spirit when dealing with kindred subjects, represents the situation of a rustic swain, whose philanderings have landed him in the midst of the perplexit... More
A tender parting at the Grand Junction canal
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Finding of arms : Or a midnight domiciliary visit to the boarding scho...
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A tour to the lakes, Thomas Rowlandson
A clerical traveller has arrived, late at night, at an hostel ; a pretty chamber-maid is showing the reverend visitor to his room, bearing a lighted candle, a warming pan, and the saddle-bags of the guest, who ... More
A cruise to Covent Garden, Thomas Rowlandson
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Miseries of human life. "Treading in a beau trap.."
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Candidates canvassing for seats in Parliament, Thomas Rowlandson
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Politeness, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain print
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A flint, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain portrait drawing
Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors, a popular artist in the Regency period in England.
Miseries of human life, p. 77. "Being accelerated in your walk by the ...
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Royal fishmongers : Or a welcome to Billingsgate
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Miseries of human life. "During the endless time that you are kept wai...
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Miseries domestic, 10, Thomas Rowlandson
Miseries domestic - sitting on the cat Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawi... More
More miseries. Being persuaded to put your finger into the cage of a p...
More miseries - petting a parrot - a bite from his beak Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures... More
The Quaker, and the Commissioners of excise
Four well-fed Commissioners, the members of a board, seated at the green baize, are cross-questioning a Quaker, represented in a suit of conventional sad-coloured apparel, and wearing the typical broad-brimmed ... More
Miseries of bathing, Thomas Rowlandson
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