Wednesday, 4 August 2021

Thomas Rowlandson - part 7

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 - 6 also.

This is part 7 of a 19-part series on the works of Thomas Rowlandson:  

c1800 The Country House
watercolour over traces of black chalk on paper
© Victoria & Albert Museum, London

1800 The Horse Armoury in the Tower
hand-coloured etching 27.5 x 41.3 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 Village Fair: Harlequin and Quack
watercolour on cream paper 20.6 x 28 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1800 Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions. 

Book with twenty hand-coloured etchings and four aquatints in grey and black on cream wove paper, laid down on album sheets with gilt borders:

1800 Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions
hand-coloured etching 36 x 30 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.3 Admiration
hand-coloured etching 29.3 x 22.8 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.4 Admiration with Astonishment.
 hand-coloured etching 29.4 x 22.3 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.5 Veneration.
 hand-coloured etching 29.2 x 22.6 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.6 Rapture.
 hand-coloured etching 29 x 22.1 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.7 Desire
hand-coloured etching 26.5 x 20 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.8 Joy with Tranquility
hand-coloured etching 25.4 x 17.9 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.9 Laughter
hand-coloured etching 29.5 x 22.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.10 Acute Pain
hand-coloured etching 28.9 x 22.6 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.11 Simple Bodily Pain
hand-coloured etching 27.2 x 22.2 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.12 Sadness
hand-coloured etching 27.9 x 21.9 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.13 Weeping
hand-coloured etching 29.3 x 22.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.14 Compassion
hand-coloured etching 29 x 22.4 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.15 Scorn.
 hand-coloured etching 26.3 x 21 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.16 Horror
hand-coloured etching 28.8 x 22.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.17 Terrour (Terror) or Fright
hand-coloured etching 28.7 x 22 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.19 Hatred or Jealousy.
 hand-coloured etching 28.7 x 21.9 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 No.20 Despair
hand-coloured etching

1800 Six Illustrations to the Adventures of Roderick Random, Vol.1 (three found):

1800 Lieutenant Bowling pleading the cause of young Rory to his Grandfather
etching and aquatint 27 x 34.4 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 Morgan offending the delicate organs of Captain Whiffle.
 etching and aquatint 28.3 x 34.4 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 Roderick's Examination at Surgeon's Hall
etching and aquatint 28.2 x 34.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 Six Illustrations to the Adventures of Roderick Random, Vol.2 (two found):

1800 Captain Bowling introduced to Narcissa
etching and aquatint 26.8 x 35 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1800 Melopoyn haranguing the Prisoners in the Fleet
etching and aquatint 26.8 x 34 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1803 - 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom. It produced a brief period of French domination over most of Europe.


1803 John Bull Listening to the Quarrels of State Affairs
hand-coloured etching 24.3 x 31.3 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1803 The Flight of Bonaparte from Hell-Bay.
 hand-coloured etching and aquatint 36.1 x 26 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 Nap Buonaparte in a fever on receiving the Extraordinary Gazette of Nelson's Victory over the combined Fleets
hand-coloured etching 25.4 x 35 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 The Departure from the Coast.
The End of the Farce of Invasion.
 hand-coloured etching 27 x 34.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 John Bull making observations on the Comet
 hand-coloured etching 24.7 x 34.8 cm (image)
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1808 A Hard Passage or Boney playing Base on the Continent.
 hand-coloured etching 24.7 x 35 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1808 A Spanish Pass-port to France!!
hand-coloured etching 25.7 x 34.5 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1808 Nap and his Partner Joe
hand-coloured etching 24.7 x 35 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1808 Napoleon the Little in a Rage with his Great French Eagle!!
hand-coloured etching 25.4 x 35.5 cm (sheet)
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1808 The Beast ss described in the Revelations, Chap. 13, Resembling Napoleon Buonaparte
hand-coloured etching 26 x 35.8 cm (image)
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1808 The Corsican Nurse soothing the Infants of Spain
hand-coloured etching 24.3 x 34.7 cm (image)
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1808 The Corsican Tiger at Bay!
hand-coloured etching 25.5 x 35.6 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1808 The Fox and the Grapes.
 hand-coloured etching 25.6 x 34.5 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1809 Boneys Broken Bridge.
 hand-coloured etching 25.4 x 35.9 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1811 Boney The Second or the Little Babboon created to devour French Monkies.
 hand-coloured etching 25 x 34.8 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1811 Nursing the Spawn of a Tyrant, or Frenchmen sick of the Breed.
 hand-coloured etching 34.6 x 24.6 cm (image)
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


1813 Friends and Foes – Up he Goes – Sending the Corsican Munchausen to St. Cloud
 hand-coloured etching 26 x 36.4 cm (sheet)
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1813 Funcking the Corsican.
hand-coloured etching 24.8 x 35 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1813 Mock Auction or Boney Selling Stolen Goods
 hand-coloured etching 25 x 35.1 cm (sheet)
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1813 Nap and His Friends in their Glory
hand-coloured etching 27.3 x 34.5 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1813 Plump to the Devil we Boldly Kick'd Both Nap and His Partner Joe
hand-coloured etching 25.5 x 37 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1813 The Corsican Munchausen – Humming the Lads of Paris.
 hand-coloured etching 24.5 x 34.9 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1813 The Mock Phoenix!!! Or a vain attempt to Rise.
 Again hand-coloured etching 25.1 x 35.9 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1814 A Delicate Finish to a French Usurper. 
hand-coloured etching 24.5 x 34.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1814 A Friendly Visit.
 hand-coloured etching and stipple 23.2 x 33 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1814 Bloody Boney the Carcass Butcher Left of Trade and Retiring to Scarecrow Island.
 hand-coloured etching 23.8 x 34.4 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1814 Blucher the Brave Extracting the Groan of Abdication from the Corsican Blood Hound.
 hand-coloured etching 25.2 x 36.4 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1814 Coming in at the Death of the Corsican Fox. Scene the Last,
 hand-coloured etching 24.8 x 35.2 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1814 Death and Bonaparte, The Two Kings of Terror
hand-coloured etching 23 x 26 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1814 Nap Dreading His Doleful Doom or His Grand Entry in the Isle of Elba.
hand-coloured etching 23.6 x 34.3 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1814 The Affectionate Farewell, or Kick for Kick.
 hand-coloured etching 24.5 x 34.6 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1814 The Devil's Darling.
 hand-coloured etching 34.9 x 24.8 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1814 The Rogues March.
hand-coloured etching 24.8 x 35 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1814 The Tyrant of the Continent is Fallen, Europe is Free, England Rejoices.
 hand-coloured etching 24.8 x 34.8 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1815 R. Ackermann's Transparency on the Victory of Waterloo.
 hand-coloured etching 22 x 33.8 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1815 The Corsican and His Bloodhounds at the Window of the Thuilleries Looking Over Paris.
 hand-coloured etching 24.5 x 3.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


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