Scope and Contents Hand-coloured etching. A fat drink-blotched man, wearing a nightcap, sits full face at a round dinner-table, grasping knife and fork, and gloating over the capon in front of him; the table-cloth is tucked under his chin. A footman leans attentively over the back of his chair. At a side-table (left) a buxom and scantily-clad maidservant fills a goblet with effervescing wine. Three others advance from the right carrying dishes: a sucking-pig and raised pie. The table is covered by decanter,...

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Hand-coloured etching. Publishing details have been cut off our copy: 'Rowlandson / London Pub April 21 1809, by Reeve & Jones. No 7 Vere Street, Bond Street'.

Scope and Contents Hand-coloured etching. A justice-room in an old-fashioned country house with uncurtained mullioned window (right), raftered roof from which hangs a wicker bird-cage, and a truckle-bed turned up against the wall (left). A smart officer measures the height of a small thin yokel in a smock, under the inspection of a fat old justice, a similar old man wearing spectacles and in uniform, and a clerk, all seated at a small table. In the doorway stands a fat and pompous constable holding a staff and...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A wild melée over a tea-table, five pairs of women in furious combat. The round table still stands but the tea-tray slides to the floor, where broken tea-things have already fallen. Two viragoes fight, leaning across the table which separates them, tearing each other’s hair: one (right) kicks over an arm-chair, the other rests a foot on the upturned posterior of a woman lying on her back, whose face receives a deluge of scalding water from an urn being held...

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Hand-coloured etching. Possibly published by Thomas Palser.

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A plump, comely woman sits full-face behind a table whose surface forms the base of the design. Her dress is cut low, and her hair is piled in a pyramid; her back is reflected in a large wall-mirror. On the table are trays filled with cards, dishes of fruit, a reading lamp, and a plant in a pot. A thin elderly woman, similarly dressed, stands looking at her in profile to the right. Very heads the list of the most renowned restaurateurs in Paris, in a...

Scope and Contents A fashionably dressed woman sits in profile to the left, at an ornate table raised above the floor of the café, studying a pamphlet or menu on which is the word 'Paris'. Her arm-chair is decorated with ornaments, the arm terminating in a ram’s head. Customers and waiters (left) are on a smaller scale. Columns with ornate capitals support the roof, and the wall is decorated with large paintings of nude and heroic figures. The Café des Mille Colonnes was renowned for its gilt columns, and...

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A handsome strapping woman stands in the doorway of a brothel, a corner house of some size (right), tugging hard at the neck-cloth of a plainly dressed man, saying: "Wont you come, wont you come Mr Mug" [a popular song, see No. 11205]. He leans back, pushing against the door-post and the woman’s chest, trying to escape, and saying: "Avaunt thee Satan". Two laughing prostitutes lean against him (left), pushing their posteriors against his, to prevent his...

Scope and Contents A hand-coloured print of a wedding reception where couples dance together. Prominent amongst them is a man wearing a blue jacket and an ill-fitting wig who dances with a young woman. The dancer's hands are held high in the air. On the right, a fiddler is seated playing and behind him, a couple who are partially obscured by drapes, kiss. A plaque on the wall reads: 'They dance in a round, cutting capers and ramping, A mercy the ground, Did not burst with their stamping, the floor is all wett,...

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A group of men sit around a table and gorge themselves on feast, some fighting the others for food. A man seated at the head of the table at left lifts a large goblet to his mouth. Two men, apparently late to the feast, enter through the door at left with shocked expressions. Description from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). In the foreground is a low cliff or bank overlooking the sands; from this four elderly men are eagerly and delightedly looking through telescopes at naked ladies disporting in the sea. An angry woman (right) tugs at the coat-tails of one of them; she has a tiny sunshade, and like her husband is grossly fat. Bathing machines are in the water, with hoods covering the steps to the sea. A fat bathing woman pushes a lady up the steps of a machine. Behind the...

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A hand-coloured print of a portly rector who is suspended above his horse by means of a crane secured to the wall of the rectory. Two women pull on the rope that has heaved the rector into the air whilst a grinning groom stands alongside the horse. Inscribed in the plate: 'Pub[lishe]d December 30th 1813 by / Rowlandson Del 1813'. Description from the Royal Collection Trust.

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A hand-coloured print of a Jewish man holding up a piglet for his wife to admire who bends down to kiss it. Behind her another woman looks-on with pleasure. On the right their Jewish neighbour shows outrage at the scene. The sow is in the ground on the right. On the wall is posted a sign that reads 'Lost supposed to have been stolen a Sow and Seven Pigs Whoever gives Information Five Pound Reward.' Description from Royal Collection Trust.

Scope and Contents Engraving (coloured impression). A fat woman has fallen on her back from a ladder, knocking down her lover, who lies on his back beneath her. He wears military uniform. Both scream angrily, and a dog (left) barks at her. The ladder, one rung of which is broken, leans against a first-floor window (left) from which the husband looks out, holding a candle. Behind (right), a laughing postilion holds open the door of a post-chaise. A full moon with grinning features looks down from clouds. A lamp...

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Hackney assembly. The graces, the graces, remember the graces'; scene in a ballroom, with a man being presented to a woman in the foreground. Musicians play in a gallery, top right and couples waltz in the background. Description from the London Picture Archive.