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37. Taylor turn'd lord [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1812]
- Call Number:
- 812.00.00.58+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An obese man in elegant dress struts down Fleet Street as his fellow tailors roar with laughter at his pompous attire. In the background, a woman (his wie?) put signs on the sides of the shops advertising breeches and other haberdashery. A dog barks as he looks up at the elegantly dressed pretender
- Alternative Title:
- Taylor turned lord and Tailor turned lord
- Description:
- Title etched below image., A detail from a 1805 print by Rowlandson: Recovery of a dormant title, or, A breeches maker become a lord., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Butchers, Couples, Dogs, Social classes, Social mobility, Snobbishness, and Tailors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Taylor turn'd lord [graphic]
38. The last jig, or, Adieu to Old England [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 January 1818] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 43. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in a tavern cellar, with a young woman, gaily dressed, dancing a jig with a man wearing an apron; at left, a sailor playing the violin, at right, a sailor sitting on steps and leaning forward, smoking, resting his arms on a barrel, another beside him holding a bowl, a young woman standing behind them with a hand on the shoulder of each; behind, three amorous couples, including a sailor sitting on another barrel
- Alternative Title:
- Adieu to Old England
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.808., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 363., and On leaf 43 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd January 20th, 1818, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Royal Navy
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Jig (Dance), Couples, Dance, Kissing, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The last jig, or, Adieu to Old England [graphic]
39. The rivals [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 July 1812]
- Call Number:
- 812.07.14.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a well-furnished parlor, a woman (left) sits playing at a harpsichord as she turns to gaze with admiration at young military officer who looks at her with intimacy; an older officer to her left scowls at them, his hand in the breast of his vest. On the right another young woman leans her head in her hand, a bored, annoyed look on her face; her elbow is resting on a table on which sits her sewing basket; in her right hand she holds a scissors, her arm thrown back over the back of the upholstered chair. On the floor at her feet is a book "Tirumph of temper." A dog sits at her feet looking up at her. On the back well is a portrait of old woman. On the mantel is a sculpture of a roman chariot and horses
- Description:
- Title etched below image., The year of publication in lower right corner is etched over "1807.", In lower left corner of design: Rowlandson 1812. "1812" is etched over "1807.", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 14, 1812 by T Rowlandson, No. 1 James S[t]., Adelphi
- Subject (Topic):
- Anger, Couples, Dogs, Draperies, Envy, Fireplaces, Harpsichords, Mantels, Paintings, Parlors, and Scissors & shears
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rivals [graphic]
40. The surprise [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.00.00.57
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Nude figures resting on a river bank in the shade of a tree; one woman reclining, another seated beside her at right, seen from behind and holding drapery over herself; a couple embracing at left, another couple in the water at right."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and For a different version of this print, either an earlier state or a different plate altogether, see the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1981,U.257.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Bathers, Couples, Bathing, and Nudes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The surprise [graphic]
41. The sweet little girl that I love [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.06.04.02.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A tall, thin, elderly military officer, ugly but elegant, stoops to embrace a fat woman, short and hideous. She wears a countrified straw bonnet, apron, and high pattens, but is very decolletee. There is a rustic background with a cottage (right). He says, the words etched across the upper part of the design: My Friends all declare that my time is mispent [sic] While in rural Contentment I rove, I ask no more Wealth than Dame Fortune has sent And the sweet little Girl that I love. The rose on her cheeks my delight She's soft as the down, the down of the dove No Lilly was ever so fair As the sweet little girl that I love!"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 4, 1808 by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The sweet little girl that I love [graphic]
42. Weeping [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 January 1800]
- Call Number:
- 800.01.21.18
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man dressed in a smock and neckerchief weeps as a well dressed woman, dabbing her eye, reads from a slip ballad."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 13' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Four lines of text below image: As laughter is often excited by the most simple causes, so frequently is weeping, in this instance the hard and obdurate features, that would be callous to real sufferings, melts at the fancied sorrows of a village love ballad., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: country ballads.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Broadsides, Couples, and Crying
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Weeping [graphic]
43. Work for Doctors'-Commons [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 26. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a luxuriously furnished room, across one corner of which is a large folding screen. Behind the screen (left) a man stands on a chair looking over it, while a footman in livery crouches beside him looking round it at a pair of lovers: a fashionably dressed young military officer sprawls on a sofa, with his arms round the waist of a pretty young woman. On the ground beside them a mandoline lies across a music-book. On a small ornate table are fruit and a bottle. The fire-place, chimney-piece, candelabra, and a landscape in an ornate frame indicate a handsomely furnished room. The man looking over the screen is elderly and dressed in an old-fashioned manner with tie-wig, flapped waistcoat, and sleeves with wide cuffs."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, before S.W. Fores added as a publisher at end of imprint, see no. 8178 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 306., and On leaf 26 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by T. Rowlandson, Strand, Feby. 1792, & S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly [i.e. Field & Tuer]
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Screens, Servants, Couples, Military officers, Fireplaces, Sconces, Mandolins, Clocks & watches, and Adultery
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Work for Doctors'-Commons [graphic].