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Thomas Rowlandson
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Tail Piece to Volume Three: The Genii of Caricature Bringing in Fresh Supplies - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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World in Miniature (Plate 20) - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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A Friendly Visit - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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The Double Disaster or New Cure for Love - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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The Old Woman's Complaint; or The Greek Alphabet - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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Road to Ruin - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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Sports of a Country Fair, Part the Second - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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Libel Hunters on the Look Out, or Daily Examiners of the Liberty of the Press - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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Symptoms of Sanctity - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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The Winding Up of the Clock - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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The Caricature Magazine, or Mirror of Mirth - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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Connoisseurs - or Portrait Collectors!!! - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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Anger - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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Pastime in Portugal or A Visit to the Nunnerys - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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Tea on Shore - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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Misfortune at Tulip Hall - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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The Political Butcher or Spain Cutting up Buonaparte - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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Mr. H. Angelo's Fencing Academy - Thomas RowlandsonPrint
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Village Street - Thomas RowlandsonPrint · Framed
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Coast Scene - Thomas RowlandsonPrint · Framed
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The Old Maid - Thomas RowlandsonPrint · Framed
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One Who Has Nothing to Leave Making His Will - Thomas RowlandsonPrint · Framed
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Preparing to Start - Thomas RowlandsonPrint · Framed
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Portsmouth Point - Thomas RowlandsonPrint · Framed
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Artist Biography
Thomas Rowlandson
Rowlandson inherited seven thousand pounds from his aunt and gambled it away. He was known to sit at gaming tables for thirty-six hours at a stretch. The loss is the reason he produced over ten thousand drawings and prints in his lifetime: the volume had more to do with debts than with artistic ambition.
He trained at the Royal Academy Schools in London and may have spent time in Paris, though the often-quoted two years at a Parisian academy has been narrowed by recent scholarship to a few weeks at most. His technique was fast, fluent, and populated by figures who bulge, lurch, stumble and grope their way through Georgian England. The line is always in motion. Fat men eat. Thin women flirt. Horses rear. Coaches overturn. The world in a Rowlandson drawing is always on the verge of falling over.
He drew for the satirical press, illustrated books (including the Dr Syntax series, which sold well enough to keep him solvent for several years), and produced erotica for a private clientele that was never published in his lifetime. Unlike James Gillray, whose satire was ferocious and politically targeted, Rowlandson's humour was broader and warmer. He drew human beings as comic animals: vain, greedy, amorous and fundamentally absurd.
His subjects included Vauxhall Gardens, the races at Brighton, country fairs, and the particular chaos of London streets. He drew the city as a place where everyone is either trying to sell something, steal something, or seduce someone, often simultaneously. He died in 1827, aged seventy, having drawn everything he saw and gambled most of what he earned.
He trained at the Royal Academy Schools in London and may have spent time in Paris, though the often-quoted two years at a Parisian academy has been narrowed by recent scholarship to a few weeks at most. His technique was fast, fluent, and populated by figures who bulge, lurch, stumble and grope their way through Georgian England. The line is always in motion. Fat men eat. Thin women flirt. Horses rear. Coaches overturn. The world in a Rowlandson drawing is always on the verge of falling over.
He drew for the satirical press, illustrated books (including the Dr Syntax series, which sold well enough to keep him solvent for several years), and produced erotica for a private clientele that was never published in his lifetime. Unlike James Gillray, whose satire was ferocious and politically targeted, Rowlandson's humour was broader and warmer. He drew human beings as comic animals: vain, greedy, amorous and fundamentally absurd.
His subjects included Vauxhall Gardens, the races at Brighton, country fairs, and the particular chaos of London streets. He drew the city as a place where everyone is either trying to sell something, steal something, or seduce someone, often simultaneously. He died in 1827, aged seventy, having drawn everything he saw and gambled most of what he earned.
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