Box F741.5(R) Box 1

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Inscription: in plate within image lower left: 'Price one Shilling Coloured'; below image left: 'Woodward del.'; center: 'MURPHY DELANEY. / [two columns of verse]'; right: 'Rowlandson Sc'; above image right: '4'. Description from the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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A young woman drinking wine and having her foot 'treated' by an old female chiropodist. Inscription: 'Rowlandson 1805'.

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Engraving (partly coloured). A fat barrow-woman wheels a barrow on which are a few potatoes and scales. Behind her stands a fat woman with a large basket on her head; a man walks past with a pole from which ducks are suspended. All cry their wares. Small derelict houses are suggested in the background. Partial description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VIII.

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Scene in the Covent Garden, the church on the left. A pretty flower-girl, her basket on her arm, holds a nosegay in each hand, acosting (?) a Persian, who is curiously dressed in a long furred gown, with a high hat, and slippers on bare feet. He holds a rod or (?) a taper. Behind (left) a flower seller sits beside her basket; a hawker with a basket walks past. Partial description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VIII.

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Scene under the piazzas, Covent Garden. A blind man advances, shouting, his stick and hat held out, towards two pretty young women, one of whom drops a coin in the hat. On his chest is a placard: 'Poor blind man'. Behind (right), an exaggeratedly slim and foppish officer helps a lady from a coach. Partial description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VIII.

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Inscription: in plate within image lower left: 'Rowlandson 1811'; center: 'Light your Honor Coach unhired'. Description from the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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Aquatint (coloured impression). An altercation between a wherry that contains three males and a female and a rowing boat also containing three men and a woman. The occupants of the latter shout at the wherry passengers and the female passenger bares her buttocks to the people in the wherry, much to their horror. A more peaceful scene takes place in the background with a sailing boat and a windmill. Description from Royal Collection Trust.

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Inscription: in plate within top image lower left: 'Pub July 14 1812 by T Rowlandson N 1 James St. Adelphi'; lower right right: 'Rowlandson 1805'; below top image center: 'GLOW WORMS'. Description from the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Companion print of F741.5(R)/28.

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Bottom image center: 'MUCK WORMS'. Companion print of F741.5(R)/27.

Scope and Contents Below, an angry gambler is seated next to a table with a pistol, dice, purse, dice-box, and an open pocketbook which is inscribed 'Money Lost 10.000.' His wife is startled in bed at left. Inscription: in plate below both images at left: 'Rowlandson Del'; below bottom image center: 'THE GAMESTER GOING TO BED.'; left: 'London Pub.d July 31 1811 by T. Rowlandson / N 1 James Street Adelphi'. Typically paired with 'The Huntsman Rising', Rowlandson. Description from the Metropolitan Museum, New...