Friday 23 July 2021

Thomas Rowlandson - part 2

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 and for earlier works see part 1 also.

This is part 2 of a 19-part series on the works of Thomas Rowlandson:

1784-88 Landscape with Figures on Horseback
soft ground etching and aquatint 27.4 x 37.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1784 Painting
stipple engraving 19.7 x 22.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785 Amputation
hand-coloured etching 31 x 42.4 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785 Courtship in High Life
etching and aquatint 22.6 x 17.8 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785 Filial Affection, or a Trip to Gretna Green
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 26.7 x 43.2 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785 Going, A-Going
hand-coloured etching 23.6 x 31.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785 Love
hand-coloured etching 17.9 x 22.6 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785 Mock Turtle
hand-coloured etching 19.1 x 24.3 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1810 Mock Turtle. Puff Paste.
 hand-coloured etching 35 x 24.6 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785 The Consultation.
 hand-coloured etching and aquatint 29.5  x 36.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785 The Convocation.
 hand-coloured etching 30.4 x 38.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785 The Huntsman
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 33 x 38.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785-87 Black Dog Inn Yard At Belfont
hand-coloured etching 25.6 x 35.3 c (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785-94 Tea on Shore.
 hand-coloured etching 32.5 x 41 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785-95 A View at Blackwall
hand-coloured etching 25 x 35.6 cm (sheet)
© Royal Collection Trust, UK

1785-95 Girl with a Basket and Birdcage adjusting her Garter
hand-coloured etching 28.5 x 22.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1785-1805 The Barber's Shop
pen, ink and watercolour 23.8 x 33.7 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1785 Vicar & Moses
hand-coloured etching and aquatint 15.5 x 21 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 Tis not Antiques alone can please the Eye,
or Tastes Differ
hand-coloured etching 15.6 x 21.6 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 Bacchants
hand-coloured etching 18.8 x 25 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 Captain Epilogue
hand-coloured etching 25 x 16.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 First and Second Floor Lodgers
etching with stipple and hand colouring 41.2 x 25.2 cm (sheet)
© Royal Collection Trust, UK

1786 Going Out in the Morning
etching with watercolour and aquatint 43.7 x 56.7 cm
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

1786 Le Négligé
hand-coloured etching 35 x 24.4 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
hand-coloured etching, stipple and aquatint
15.5 x 21.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 Picturesque Beauties of Boswell. Part the First:

1786 Boswell’s Tour to the Hebrides: Folio Cover

1786 Frontispiece.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 Chatting.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 Imitations at Drury-Lane Theatre.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 Lodging at M’Queen’s.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 Revising for the Second Edition.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 Sailing Among the Hebrides.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 Scottifiying the Palate.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 Setting Out from Edinburgh.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 Tea.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 The Contest at Auckinleck.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 The Dance of the Dun-Can.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 The Embrace.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 The Journalist.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 The Procession.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 The Reconciliation, from Boswell’s Tour of the Hebrides
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 The Recovery.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 The Vision.
etching o paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 Veronica A Breakfast Conversation.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 Walking up the High Street
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 Wit and Wisdom.
etching on paper 27.5 x 38 cm (sheet)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1786 Picturesque Beauties of Boswell. Part the Second:

1796 Frontispiece
etching 25.4 x 27 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 Lodging at M'Queen's.
 etching 26 x 27.6 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 Sailing Among the Hebrides.
 etching 25.3 x 27.3 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 Setting out from Edinburgh.
 etching 25.6 x 27.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 The Contest at Auckinleck.
etching 25.5 x 27 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 The Procession.
etching 25.9 x 27.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 The Reconciliation.
etching 26 x 27.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 The Recovery.
etching 25.4 x 27.3 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 The Vision.
etching 25.2 x 27.7 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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1786 The Branded Bully, or the Ass Stripp'd of the Lion's Skin.
hand-coloured etching 27 x 36 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 The Duel, or Sir Dicky Dab Thro' and 'Thro' the Captain.
 hand-coloured etching and aquatint 35.9 x 50.4 cm (sheet)
© Royal Collection Trust, UK

1786 The Dying Patient, or Doctor's Last Fee.
hand-coloured etching 34.5 x 37.2 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1786 The Jovial Crew.
hand-coloured etching 30.5 x 27.5 cm (sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York