Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A night scene in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in front of a watchman’s box, within which the aged watchman sleeps, leaning his arms on the half-door. Behind, in shadow, are the houses. Below the title: 'Careful Observers, studious of the Town, Shun the Misfortunes that disgrace the Crown. Gay’s Trivia.' Cake = fool,...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A paunchy carbuncled fellow, wearing old-fashioned court-dress, with ribbon, star, sword, and a bag-wig, peacocks with hands on hips before an amused group in a narrow 'Whitechaple' street. They are outside the new peer’s shop, from which projects a pole supporting a sign: 'Breeches cleaned lined and Repaired' and an old pair of breeches. A fat woman, probably his wife, wearing a feathered cap, stands on a step-ladder scrubbing the board above the shop-front:...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A small ugly man trots (left to right) deprecatingly beside his wife, a large, over-dressed, scowling termagant, on their Sunday outing. He carries her umbrella, cloak, patterns, and a bundle in a check hankerchief. She holds a fan. An elderly man (right) walking in the opposite direction looks angrily at the couple; he swaggers in front of his pretty young wife, who appears pregnant and walks carrying a little girl and an umbrella. Behind them is an inn with...

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An elderly aunt stands at the foot of the staircase with a candle and a cat, while her niece stands on the stairs above as her lover escapes up the stairs at right. Description from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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A hand-coloured print of a woman who, in a state of semi-undress, enters a sitting room to find her husband still up and sitting by the fire, smoking and drinking. Under the man's elbow is a pamphlet open on the page 'Miseries of Human Life'. Under the table, a dog barks at a startled cat. Inscribed in the plate: Pubd May 25 1807 by R Ackermann N 101 Strand / Rowlandson 1807. Description from Royal Collection Trust.

Scope and Contents A hand-coloured print of a scene around a dining table where a large family meal is taking place. Many of the adults are plagued by children; one plays a drum as another blows a trumpet. One little boy drinks a cleric's wine as another child tugs on the pigtails of a man causing him to spill his drink. In the middle of the table, a man facing the viewer yawns voluminously. Verse underneath the design reads: 'After dinner with a favourite party when the cloth has been removed and the wine of...

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Hand-coloured etching. In plate within image lower left: 'Pub June 12 1807 by R Ackermann N 101 Strand'; right: 'Rowlandson inv. 1807'; below image centre: 'MISERIES PERSONAL / After Dinner when [...] the company disperse'. Description from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Scope and Contents A hand-coloured print of a chaotic scene in the streets of London. A couple in a carriage witness their coachman fighting with another coachman across the street as they vie for space. In the background, hod carriers drop their bricks in alarm and gold beaters continue their work from the safety of their shop. In the left foreground, two fruit sellers fall over a wheel barrow. Dancing dogs perform on the right. Verse underneath the design reads: 'In going out to dinner (already too late)...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide onto the table so that its contents pour out; in his left hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall onto the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman at the head of the table (right) and a comely young one on her right. A fat maidservant follows the footman, holding a dish. Behind the man hangs an elaborately framed bust portrait of a grim-looking man wearing...

Scope and Contents A hand-coloured print of the living quarters of a butcher's shop in which a young girl entertains an older woman by playing the guitar and singing. The older woman looks at the girl with pride and pleasure. In the corner of the room, a chimney climber boy stands gasping in admiration at the music. A portrait of 'Deputy Marrowfat' hangs on the wall showing the profile of a man in exactly the same aspect of the butcher who, standing on the right, cuts meat for an old woman holding a baby in a...

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A hand-coloured print of an attractive young woman making the sign of horns behind the head of her overweight and yawning and/or sleeping husband, John Bull. In her other hand, she slips a sealed envelope into the hands of a young military officer who, knowingly, puts a finger to his nose. Inscribed in the plate: Woodward Del / Pubd December 24 1808 by Thos Tegg No 11 Cheapside / Rowlandson Scul. Description from Royal Collection Trust.

Scope and Contents A hand-coloured print of Mrs Clarke's residence on the right that Colonel Wardle is visiting. The door is answered by Martha Favery, Mrs Clarke's housekeeper who assures Wardle that Clarke, who is leaning out of an upstairs window, will be available soon. Walking away from the building is the Duke of York wearing Bishop's Mitre. He is accompanied by his lawyer, William Adam, and Doctor O'Meara. On the left, John Croker who cross examined Clarke during the investigation, spies on Mrs Clarke...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A scene on Clerkenwell Green, outside the 'Sessions House Crerenwell' [sic], whose door is on the extreme left. Two termagants face each other in the foreground; one spits at her enemy, arms akimbo, the other tries to use her fists but is held back by an elderly man who grasps her round the waist and kicks her, losing his tie-wig. The former woman is fashionably, the latter roughly, dressed. Both have coarse faces with a certain comeliness. In the background...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A clumsy, lumbering diligence, with four horses, leaves the porte-cochére of an inn, part of whose ornate façade is on the left. The sign, 'Le Qogue [sic] en Pate', hangs from a wrought-iron bracket. Two postilions ride the near horses, flourishing their ships. The coach is full inside and out with typical French characters, humorously drawn, soldiers, monks, and women, with couples absorbed in conversation. An old couple beg from the passengers. A lean sow...

Scope and Contents A hand-coloured print of frivolity and play within a country village. A man concentrates at a game of quoits on a village green outside an inn whilst the spectators on the right seem preoccupied with other amusements. A bare-breasted woman flirts with a man who pretends to be without his legs whilst she kisses another man. A man watching the game is hit by a woman standing behind a fence wielding a broom. A fat man seated at a bench greedily drains a tankard. On the left stand more...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). One of a set, representing accidents which progressively increase in gravity. The booths are in the background (right) across a large field in which are the foreground figures, The horse has broken loose from a two-wheeled cart, heavily overladen with visitors to the fair, who have been thrown headlong to the ground, where eight men and women lie in a heap, flourishing arms and legs, either despairingly or pugnaciously; one man has remained in the front of...

Scope and Contents A hand-coloured print of seven fisherwomen carrying wicker baskets on their heads. Several of them are smoking clay pipes as they walk to the jetty to collect fish to sell at Billingsgate. On the left, a female stall holder watches the procession from behind a bench with fish on. In the background is a covered arcade with bustling figures on, some coming from the ships in the harbour. Inscribed in the plate: '11 / Pubd Sept 18th 1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside / Rowlandson Del / Price One...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). Below the title: 'Walking fast and far to overtake a Woman, whose shape and air, as viewed en derriere, you have decided that her Face is Angelic, till on eagerly turning round as you pass her – you are petrified by a Gorgon'. A street scene. A stout ugly man on the extreme left turns to look through an eye-glass at a woman with a lean and grotesque profile. She wears a straw bonnet and is blown by the wind, her dress defining her figure, her hands in a large...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A scene between decks, evidently in an East Indianman. A hammock stretches across the upper part of the design; from it a sailor looks down grinning at a buxom young woman who is being ‘rigged out’ by a sailor seated on a tea-chest. She wears chemise and petticoat, inscribed 'Gum Elastic', with two huge pockets inscribed 'Japan Old China' and 'Tea', a cask of 'coniac' and a canister are tied to her waist, and a bottle of 'Otto or [sic] Roses' is between her...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A close-up view of one of the ‘pigeon holes'; which flanked the upper gallery at Convent Garden. Heads closely packed together are framed in the lunette opening, six or seven rows receding one above the other in the centre. Most seem suffering from heat or discomfort, and except for one or two pretty young women are grotesquely caricatured. The centre figure in the front row, leaning on the parapet and apparently asleep, is a fat coachmen in livery. An old...