Thomas Rowlandson - part 9

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 - 8 also.

This is part 9 of a 19-part series on the works of Thomas Rowlandson:

c1803 The Kitchen of a French Post House
hand-coloured etching 26.5 x 22.8 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1804 A Dismounted Light Horse Volunteer .
hand-coloured etching 27.5 x 37.3 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1804 Light Infantry Volunteers on a March.
 hand-coloured etching 31.7 x 24.6 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1804 The Death of Madame Republique
hand-coloured etching 22 x 34.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 A Sailor in a Stable.
 hand-coloured etching 29 x 34.2 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 A Sailor's Marriage.
 hand-coloured etching 28.1 x 34.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 A Sailor's Will.
 hand-coloured etching 25.9 x 32.8 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 An Old Poacher Caught in a Snare.
 hand-coloured etching 33.1 x 24.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 Antiquarians à la Greque
hand-coloured etching 41 x 28.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 John Bull's Turnpike Gate.
 hand-coloured etching 28.6 x 35 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 Preparation for the Academy—Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus
pen and brown ink with brush and watercolour, over graphite, on ivory wove paper 29.4 x 23.2 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1805 Quarterly Dunns, or Clamorous Tax Gatherers.
 hand-coloured etching 34 x 24.1 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 The Blessings of Partnership.
 hand-coloured etching 25.2 x 31.9 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 The Fifth Clause or the Effect of Example.
 hand-coloured etching 22.8 x 32.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 The Modern Hercules, Cleansing the Augean Stable.
 hand-coloured etching 24 x 34.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 The Pillar of Salt.
 hand-coloured etching 43 x 31.2 cm (sheet)
© Royal Collection Trust, UK

1805 The Political Death and Last Will and Testament of Johnny Mac-Cree
hand-coloured etching 24.7 x 31.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805 The Scotch Ostrich Seeking Cover.
 hand-coloured etching 24.7 x 34.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805-11 Love Laughs at Locksmiths.
 hand-coloured etching 32.1 x 22.8 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1805-12 Raising the Wind.
 hand-coloured etching 31 x 22.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1806 A Brace of Brimstones.
 hand-coloured etching 31.5 x 22.8 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1806 A Cake In Danger.
 hand-coloured etching 34.9 x 24.5 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1806 A Diving Machine on a New Construction.
 hand-coloured etching 24.5 x 34.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1806 A Maiden Aunt Smelling Fire.
 hand-coloured etching 32.2 x 23 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1806 Butterfly Hunting.
 hand-coloured etching 24.9 x 30.5 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1806 Daniel Lambert the Wonderful Great Pumpkin of Little Brittain.
 hand-coloured etching 22.1 x 32.6 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Note: Daniel Lambert was celebrated as the fattest man on record. In 1805 he made a tour of England drawing large crowds, and also received paying visitors to his lodgings. He was said to have weighed 52 stone (330 kg) at the time of his death in 1809. Dee Below:

1806 Daniel Lambert painted by Benjamin Marshall

1806 Introduction, or Moses with a Good Bargain.
 hand-coloured etching 34.5 x 24.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1806 Making the Will
pen and brown ink with brown and grey wash and watercolour on brown paper
The British Museum, London
© The Trustees of the British Museum

1806 Symptoms of Choaking
hand-coloured etching 23.4 x 18.2 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1806 The Acquittal, or Upsetting the Porter Pot.
 hand-coloured etching 24.5 x 34.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1806 The Chamber of Genius.
 hand-coloured etching 24.4 x 31.4 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1806 The New Property Tax Paying His Respects To
 John Bull.
 hand-coloured etching 24.5 x 34.8 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 A Couple of Antiques or my Aunt and my Uncle.
 hand-coloured etching 26.7 x 36.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 A Nincompoop, or Hen Peck'd Husband.
hand-coloured etching 34.7 x 24.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 A Parody on Milton!
 hand-coloured etching 24.3 x 34.5 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 A White Sergeant giving the Word of Command - Come to Bed you drunken Sot
 hand-coloured etching 22 x 32 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 A White Sergeant giving the Word of Command: Why don't you come to bed, you drunken sot?
 hand-coloured etching 22 x 32 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 Black Brown and Fair.
 hand-coloured etching 18.3 x 20.6 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 Directions to Footman.
hand-coloured etching 34.6 x 24.6 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 Easter Monday. or The Cockney Hunt.
 hand-coloured etching 33.8 x 24.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 I Smell a Rat or a Rogue in Grain.
 hand-coloured etching on ivory wove paper 21.2 x 32.2 cm (image)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1807 John Rosedale Mariner. Exhibitor at the Hall of Greenwich Hospital.
 hand-coloured etching 22 x 15.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 Miseries of London.
hand-coloured etching 27.5 x 41.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 Miseries of Travelling.
hand-coloured etching 27.5 x 41.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 More Miseries The Bottom of Mr Figg's Old Whiskey Broke Through
hand-coloured etching 25 x 35.4 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 Mrs. Showell. The Woman who shows General Guise's Collection of Pictures at Oxford.
 hand-coloured etching 21.5 x 13.3 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 The Double Disaster, or New Cure for Love.
 hand-coloured etching 21.8 x 28.3 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 The Holy Friar.
 hand-coloured etching 21.5 x 20.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 The Learned Scotchman, or Magistrates Mistake.
hand-coloured etching  24.4 x 34.2 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 The Miseries of Human Life.
 hand-coloured etching 24.4 x 34.4 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 The Quaker, and the Commissioners of Excise.
 hand-coloured etching 23.9 x 33.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 The Rivals.
 hand-coloured etching 25 x 35.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1807 Witches in a Hay Loft.
 hand-coloured etching 24.2 x 34.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1807 Englishman at Paris.
hand-coloured etching 15.3 x 20.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1807 Symptoms of Restiveness.
 hand-coloured etching 14.7 x 18.9 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1808 Accommodation. or Lodgings to Let at Portsmouth!!
hand-coloured etching 34.4 x 24.5 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1808 Dr. Cassock, F.R.S., Inventor of the Noble Puzzle for Tumble Down Horses.
 hand-coloured etching 8.8 x 13.8 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1808 Female Politicians.
 hand-coloured etching 24.4 x 34.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York