Thomas Rowlandson - part 4

Thomas Rowlandson (1757 London – 1827 London) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social and political satires, as well as large number of illustrations for novels, humorous books, and topographical works. Like other caricaturists of his age such as James Gillray, his caricatures are often robust or bawdy. Rowlandson also produced highly explicit erotica for a private clientele; this was never published publicly at the time and is now only found in a small number of collections. His caricatures included those of people in power such as the Duchess of Devonshire, William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte.

For more information about Thomas Rowlandson see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 -3 also.

This is part 4 of a 19-part series on the works of Thomas Rowlandson:

1790 Dressing for a Masquerade
hand-coloured etching and stipple 34.3 x 45.6 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1790 Four O'Clock in the Country.
 hand-coloured etching 32 x 38 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1790 Four O'Clock in Town.
 hand-coloured etching and aquatint 30.7 x 39.4 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1790-99 Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus
etching and stipple 20.7 x 20.9 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1790 After Dinner
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 21.5 x 26.1 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1790 At Dinner
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 21 x 26.3 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1790 Erminia discovers the wounded Tancred (from Tasso, Gerusalemme Liberata)
etching 26 x 35 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1790 Preparing for Supper
hand -coloured etching and aquatint 21.4 x 26.3 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1790 The Connoisseurs
watercolour on paper
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT

c1790 Waiting for Dinner
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 21.3 x 26.1 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1791 A Gaming Table at Devonshire House
pen and ink and watercolour 30.8 x 43.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1791 A Little Bigger.
 hand-coloured etching 39.7 xx 32.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1791 A Little Tighter
hand-coloured etching 39 x 31.2 cm (sheet)
© Royal Collection Trust, UK

1791 Damp Sheets
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 31.4 x 39.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1791 How to Escape Losing
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 25.8 x 36.1 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1791 How to Escape Winning.
 etching 28 x 39.4 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1791 Modish and Prudish
hand-coloured etching 26.3 x 37.8 cm (sheet)

1791 Single and Married
hand-coloured etching 26.6 x 37.6 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1791 Returning from the Races
hand-coloured etching 23.3 x 33.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1791 Slugs in a Saw-Pit
hand-coloured etching 31 x 38.4 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1791 St. James's. and St. Giles's.
 hand-coloured etching 24.3 x 15.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1791 The Grand Monarck Discovered in a Pot de Chambre, or The Fugitives Turning Tail
hand-coloured etching 23.8 x 33 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1791 Traffic
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 29.6 x 36.3 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1791-93 A Four-in-Hand, or The Runaway Carriage
hand-coloured etching 22.2 x 33.3 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1792 A Bawd on her Last Legs.
 hand-coloured etching 27.4 x 37.3 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1792 An Essay on the Sublime & Beautiful
hand-coloured etching 23.7 x 16.3 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1792 Beauties
hand-coloured soft ground etching and stipple engraving 27.4 x 37.8 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1792 Cold Broth & Calamity
hand-coloured etching 18.1 x 28.1 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1792 Cold Broth & Calamity
pen and grey and brown ink with watercolour
The British Museum, London
© The Trustees of the British Museum

1792 Oddities
hand-coloured etching 18.8 x 26.1 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1792 Philosophy Run Mad or a Stupendous Monument of Human Wisdom
etching 27.2 x 37.4 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1792 Six Stages of Mending a Face
hand-coloured etching 27.4 x 38.4 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1792 The Chairmen's Terror
hand-coloured etching 24.7 x 29.8 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1792 The Pavior's Joy.
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 24.3 x 29.1 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1792 Waiting for Dinner
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 20.3 x 25.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1793 Five times by the Taper's light, The hour glass I have turn'd to night!!
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 29.6 x 23.6 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1793 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollet:

Men Dancing in a Coffee House
etching and engraving 11.3 x 16.4 cm (sheet)

Clinker Preaching in Clerkenwell Prison
etching and engraving 12 x 16.4 cm (sheet)

Matthew Bramble Offering Charity to the Ensign's Widow
etching and engraving 11.5 x 16.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The First Meeting of Matthew Bramble and Humphry Clinker
etching and engraving 11.5 x 16.4 cm (sheet)

Humphry Clinker Smashing a Dish at Dinner
etching and engraving 11.2 x 16.1 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Duke of N-'s Levée
etching and engraving 11.8 x 16.3 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Lismahago Outside the Inn at Durham
etching and engraving 11.8 x 15.8 cm (sheet)

A Drawing Room Altercation
etching and engraving 11.2 x 14.8 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Wedding of Lismahago and Tabitha
etching and engraving 11.4 x 16.2 cm (sheet) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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1794 A Visit to the Aunt
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 17 x 22.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1794 A Visit to the Uncle
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 17.8 x 22.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1794 An Early Lesson of Marching.
 hand-coloured etching 23.2 x 33 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1794 New Shoes.
 hand-coloured etching 25.6 x 20.4 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1794 Oddities
hand-coloured etching 18.2 x 27.6 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1794 The Comforts of High Living.
hand-coloured etching 15.5 x 22.5 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1794 The Grand-Papa.
 etching 17.2 x 21.2 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1795 Courtship in Low Life
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 22.6 x 17.8  cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1795 The Dead Alive!
hand-coloured etching 28.8 x 36 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1795 The Poor Poet and Rich Carcass Butcher
pen and watercolour 27.9 x 21.1 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1795-99 Fortuna with a Purse
etching 24 x 16.8 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1795 Grog on Board
pen and watercolour over pencil 29.3 x 41.4 cm (sheet)
© Royal Collection Trust, UK

c1795 Travellers at the Door of a Mansion
pen and watercolour on paper 26.9 x 30.9 cm (sheet)
© Royal Collection Trust, UK

1796 A Dutch Abbess and her Nymphs
hand-coloured etching 28.6 x 23.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1796 Dutch Merchants Sketched at Amsterdam
hand-coloured etching 26.3 x 21.9 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1796 The Detection
hand-coloured etching 22.6 x 33 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York