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Self portrait colour caricature by Thomas Rowlandson. Undated.

Scope and Contents Engraving. Fox drives (right to left) Sir Cecil Wray as a pauper in the county pass-cart to the place of his settlement in Lincolnshire. Fox sits on the high driving seat of a ramshackle cart flourishing his whip and looking round at Wray, who sits disconsolately in profile to the right, his hands clasped and resting on the side of the cart. Fox says: "I will drive you to Lincoln where you may Superintend the Small beer & brick dust." Wray says: "I always was a poor dog But now I am...

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A melee of wigged doctors with two opponents engaged in fisticuffs in the foreground, one astride a figure fallen onto his back on the floor. Two other figures fight in the right background, and a row of seated figures is visible in the left background, and a figure standing on a stool at left. Desciption from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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An uncoloured print untypical of Rowlandson. A lady stands in right side profile as she is introduced to a visitor who enters on the right, whilst on the left, another visitor secretly exits in a hurry. Inscribed in the plate: Published 21st April 1786 by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No.3 Piccadilly. Description from the Royal Collection Trust.

Scope and Contents An uncoloured print showing the various allegiances and rivalries in Europe at the beginning of 1786. Under a canopy are George III of England and Frederick the Great of Austria flanked, respectively, by the Kings of England on the left and Kings of Prussia on the right. The double headed eagle of Austria is held by King Frederick. Inscribed in the plate: Pubd Feby 10th 1786 by S Hedges No.91 Cornhill. Description from the Royal Collection Trust.The amity and co-operation between...

Scope and Contents Aquatint (coloured and uncoloured impressions). An evening scene in Vauxhall Gardens. On the extreme left is the orchestra with the organ behind and performers on the kettledrums, string and wind instruments. The vocalist, Mrs Weichsel, sings, in profile to the right, from the adjacent (and slightly lower) balcony, just above the heads of the crowd. A violinist and another musician are seated behind her. In the supper box beneath the orchestra is Dr Johnson seated full-face, between Boswell...

Scope and Contents Engraving. A semicircle of spectators, seated and standing, crowed one behind the other, watch the performance of the pig, who stands before a row of initial letters, one of which he holds in his mouth. Over the chimney-piece is a placard, 'The Surprising PIG well versed in all Languages. perfect Arithmetician Mathematician & Composer of Musick'. On the right the wall of the room hangs a large shoe. The learned pig caused a sensation in 1784, and later, see Nos. 6715, 7214. Cf. Southey,...

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A hand-coloured print of a couple taking tea with parents. On the left sit the couple engaged in conversation. The mother pours coffee from a tureen whilst a servant serves sugar to a bespectacled man. On the right is seated the father with a gouty foot raised on a cushion. Inscribed in the plate: 1785 / Publish'd Jany 1st 1786 by S.W.Fores at the Caracature Warehouse, No.3 Piccadilly. Description from Royal Collection Trust.

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Engraving (coloured impression). Two designs on one plate. Above, a group of spectators seated in a gallery and watching a comedy, all intent and either amused or surprised. Below, a similar group, all of whom weep or look distressed. A man holds a smelling bottle to a lady’s nose (right). A play-bill is inscribed 'Romeo and Juliet' (reversed). Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 217-19 (reproductions). Partial description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VI. 7606.

Scope and Contents Aquatint. The interior of a penny-barber’s shop showing one corner of a small raftered room lit by a lamp hung from the roof and inscribed Shave with Ease & Expedition for one Penny. The barber (right) flourishes his razor above the head of a lean client whose face a boy (left) coats with lather, using a large brush; a bucket hangs on the boys arm. In the background (right) a second customer in back view is also being shaved. Two wig-blocks lie on the ground (right). Grego,...

Scope and Contents Engraving. 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...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). The interior of an art school. A stout woman (nude) sprawls awkwardly on an armchair on the model throne, round with fat Dutchmen are grouped. One, seated on an upturned tub (right), paints at a large canvas on an easel, the figure being realistically drawn. Others sit on the floor or on stools, drawing on smaller canvases. One stands (left) behind a high desk. Some smoke pipes. The room is lit by a smoky lamp hanging from the roof, throwing the light...

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Aldermen and Mace-bearers, his worship the Mayor, with his chain, and his dignified deportment, and his following of puffed-up provincial big-wigs are shown filing in solemn state past the pump, the Town-hall, and the stocks, to the Church vest. Description from the Princeton University Library.

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Hand-coloured etching and aquatint. Signed 'Rowlandson' in image, lower left. Title etched below image. In plate below image left: 'Pub March 12 1800 at R Ackermans Repository of the Arts N 101 Strand'.

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Hand-coloured etching and aquatint. In plate below image right: 'Published Dec 20, 1799 by R. Ackermann N 101 Strand'. Bottom ripped off so title is missing.

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Hand-coloured etching. In plate below image: 'Woodward Delin / Etch'd by Rowlandson'. Inscribed in plate, within image: 'Pub-d July 8 1800 by R. Ackermann N. 101 Strand'.

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Hand-coloured etching. A lady is seated at a table in a sponging house, surrounded by the sheriff's officers. A bondsman sits at left and contemplates the situation. Inscription: in plate, below image center: 'Pub.d July 1st 1802 by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly.' Description from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). In the foreground is the kitchen, with an open doorway leading to the dining-room and showing the end of a table and four lean and avid diners whose hats hang on the wall. The cook, carbuncled, filthy, and slobbering, empties the scrapings of a plate into a large pot standing on the floor. A ragged waiter hastens to the dining-room with a plate, scratching his head and looking over his shoulder at the cook. On the wall hangs the ‘game’ for the pot: a frog, a...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A pretty girl (left) and a handsome young officer in regimentals (right) stand facing each other; he holds her hand, and places a ring on her finger. The grotesque elderly man, more parson than blacksmith, stands between them, bawling from a book and watching the bride. Behind (right) is a post-chaise and horse; a postilion stands by, watching the ceremony. In the background (left) is a shed where a horse is being shoed. It is placarded: 'Tim Tag Blacksmith...

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Hand-coloured etching. In plate below image right: 'Pubd. July 18th 1805 by T. Rowlandson / N1 James St Adelphi'; within image lower right: 'Rowlandson 1805'.