Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). Masqueraders stand closely grouped. A centre figure is an obese, aged, and capering Punch, playing a guitar. Two women are prominent, both are in profile to the left, and wear small masks which frame their eyes. One holds a wand and a book inscribed 'Magi', the other wears breeches and is very décolleté. Behind her is an ugly coarse-looking man, wearing domino with a naturalistic mask resembling his own features. A man wears a bag-wig with two large horns and...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). Scene in a vaulted ante-room of a dungeon. The turnkey, keys in hand, accepts with wary enjoyment the blandishments of a pretty young woman, whose interest is clearly in the fate of a handsome youth seen through the bars above a padlocked barrier on the r. A grotesquely obese and misshapen man (right) approaches the turnkey with a jug and a frothing glass. Behind the latter (left) is a table with a shoulder of mutton and a small cask. A cat plays amicably...

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A hand-coloured print of a rural scene in which an elderly man rides on a horse through a field; he is preceded by two dogs. He spies a young woman wearing a bonnet and a red cloak sitting under a tree and advances towards her. Inscribed in the plate: '83 / Price one shilling coloured / Pubd Augst 31 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside'. Description from the Royal Collection Trust.

Scope and Contents A comely florid woman, girding up the skirts of her decolletee dress, has dressed up in the cocked hat, jack-boots, and sword-belt of General Junot, and gaily marches beside his bed, flourishing his sword in a gauntleted hand, while she looks over her shoulder for admiration. Junot (right) sits up in bed looking at her angrily, and clutching his breeches, as if afraid she would don those too: her legs are bare above the spurred boots. A cat miaows at her. The bed is curtained and canopied,...

Scope and Contents An old hag leans back in an armchair of antique pattern; she is beset with cats which swarm round her, and turns her head with a macabre smile to kiss one on the mouth; her left hand rests on a cat standing on the table beside her. Two sit in her lap, another scrambles up her skirts. On a cushion on the floor are two large cats and two kittens; two others lap from a bowl. Others scramble and fight on the back of her chair. A pretty young woman stands (right) holding a cat which is tightly...

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Engraving (coloured impression). A handsome well-dressed young courtesan leads the way out of a room, her left hand held behind her to take the guineas which an aged and decrepit old rake gives her with a leer. A handsome well-furnished room is indicated. Above the chimney-piece is a heavily-framed picture of Danaë catching the shower of gold (cf. No. 9812). Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 206. Partial description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. IX. 11806.

Scope and Contents A hand-coloured satirical print of an elderly man who stoops to unlock a huge padlock to his house. His cane rests against the door as he fumbles with the oversized lock. Next to him stands a black servant carrying a basket of poultry on his head. His turned head draws our attention to the background where an army officer, undeterred by the lock, is helping a young woman to elope from an open window. Inscribed in the plate: 'Design[e]d and Pub[lish]d by T Rowlandson N1 James Street Adelphi...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). An aged surgeon leans over a bag of instruments on a table (right), selecting a knife; he wears an old-fashioned wig, hat, coat, etc. A pretty girl seizes him by the arm; she shouts at him, pointing behind her to his subject, a young man lying on the trestle-table, fully dressed and apparently in perfect health, who has just wakened, fully dressed and apparently in perfect health, who has just wakened, horrified. In an open cupboard stands a skeleton (left)....

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A barrister, haggard and exhausted, yawns over a 'Brief', reclining in an arm-chair, extending his bare legs to the fire (right) where a coffee-pot stands. Beside him is a 'Bill of Costs'. Evidence of overnight dissipation are a (Turkish) masquerade dress and mask on the floor and a young woman, partly dressed, arranging her hair at a mirror placed on the breakfast-table. Her foot rests on a large volume: 'Crim Con Cases'. The room is lined with heavy folios,...

Scope and Contents A hand-coloured print of a boxing match between two men in a former dance hall. The man on the left is stripped to the waist and faces a man in shirt sleeves. Both men display signs of harm with blood dripping. The audience comprises both men and women; the woman on the left has fainted and is administered smelling salts by a man. Meanwhile, on the right, a fight ensues between two women who pull one another's hair. A fiddler and a French horn player play from a balcony, top right. Inscribed...

Scope and Contents A hand-coloured print of college dons from Brasenose College, Oxford, wearing their caps and gowns issuing from a doorway on the left. The party walk underneath an archway with a gargoyle above the centre of the arch. On the right, one of the party having broken away from the group (the Vice Chancellor?), enters a doorway closely followed by a young woman carrying a basket of fruit which garners the attention of fellow members of the University. Inscribed in the plate: '59 / Pubd Feby 26...

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The scene shows the results of holiday festivities, with mistletoe overhead and four couples embracing, kissing, or attempting to kiss below. Description from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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A hand-coloured print of a man with monkeys climbing over him. He is watched by a Jewish man and a woman. One of the monkeys wears a military style jacket (possibly to represent Napoleon) and another wears a red cape that covers its back. In the background stand buildings indicating a town. Inscribed in the plate: 'M / Rowlandson 1812'. Description from the Royal Collection Trust.

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). An old woman, wearing pattens, walks preceded by a small poodle, clipped in an exaggeration of the French manner, and followed by a foot-boy in livery, who holds on a skewer a lump of 'Cat’s Meat'. He carries an umbrella under his arm. Her dress is blown back against her skinny form; her hands are in a large muff, and she wears a fur tippet over a tight bodice defining shoulders. She walks with a fixed stare, not looking at a half-naked beggar (right) with a...

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A hand-coloured print of a large Englishman who, with his right hand to his head, looks on with astonishment to see that his waistcoat can fit five Parisians who dance and frolic inside it. In the background, a large lady is examined with an air of wonder by a party of thin people. Inscribed in the plate: 'Rowlandson 1802'. Description from the Royal Collection Trust.

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Hand-coloured etching. In plate below image left: 'Rowlandson del.'; right: 'Published July 18th 1802 by S Howitt, Panton Street, Hay Market'. Description from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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A hand-coloured print of a family of chimney sweeps sitting around a large open fire over which a pot simmers. The woman is bare-breasted (pencilled in) and holds a jug as a man also smoking a pipe stares at her. Four blackened children or 'climbing boys' lie and sit on the floor eating from bowls, the contents of which interests a white cat. Description from Royal Collection Trust.

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Hand-coloured etching. Inscription: in plate within image, a sign that reads: 'Ramskin / Elastic Spring Breeches / Maker / They set Close to the Hips / and never alter their / Shape which Thousands / can Testify - Likewise / a large & curious / Assortment of Braches / Balls Straps -- / Boot Garters'. Inscribed in plate within image, lower left: Nixon inv-t'; lower right: 'Rowlandson scul'. Description from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Scope and Contents Rowlandson's leading cataloguer Joseph Grego, wrote of this print that, 'judging from the caricature, the abolition of fairs in the City must have been a boon to public order and morality. The noise, disorder, and misrule of the festivity are taking place outside the hospital. Boat-swings are revolving, a few...getting into difficulties...there are wandering sellers of sweets, pastry, and such things,...booths for refreshments...drinking stalls where tipplers are taking too much...a reveller...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). The heads and shoulders of three persons fill the design, all studies in teeth, facial expression, and caricature. The profile head of the dentist is close to the fat face of his patient, a woman with a wide smiling mouth, open to show two rows of artificial teeth and gums. He smiles, displaying his own artificial teeth, and holds his patient by the chin. Facing him (right) is a man’s head in profile, staring up at the woman through a double lorgnette; his...