Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings Search

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An Irish howl

1 pp 1799

On the extreme right the Devil holds up a canvas, 'le Tableau Parlant', which terrifies twelve Irishmen grouped round an oblong table. In their alarm the heavy table has been overturned, some are on the ground, others (left) flee in terror. The Devil, who looks round the edge of his picture, wears a bonnet-rouge inscribed 'Anarchy'; labels hang from his horn: 'Blasph[emy]' and 'Parracide'. Above the table five harpies fly off with a tattered cloth inscribed 'Map of Ireland'. They are intended for the Directors, three having belts inscribed 'Tallien' (not a Director), 'Barras', and 'Le Paux'. On the table is a paper, 'United Irishmen'. The Irishmen make gestures of terror or despair. Most look at the picture, one looks upwards, saying: "Poor Erin How thourt torn to pieces by these five Harpies."

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An Irish picnic

1 pp 1788

Title from item.

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An early riser

1 pp 1897

A rocky landscape at dawn. A stag is looking toward the viewer, at right, and the sun rising through the clouds, at left.

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An early riser

1 pp 1897

A rocky landscape at dawn. A stag is looking toward the viewer, at right, and the sun rising through the clouds, at left.

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An eating house

1 pp 1780

Title from supporting materials.

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An eating house

1 pp 1815

Title from catalogue raisonné.

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An epicure

1 pp 1788

Another Hogarth-like study, but touched with all the knowledge and spirit peculiarly the attributes of Rowlandson. An over-fed gourmand, whose hopes of happiness are evidently centred on perishable things, is exulting, with pantomimic rapture, over a delicacy in the way of fish.

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An evening party

1 pp 1780

Title from supporting materials.

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An old ewe drest lamb fashion

1 pp 1810

A deceptive old tabby, clad in a juvenile style, is dashing along in a high poke-bonnet ; three or four Don Juans of eccentric exterior are hurrying after her to tender their attentions, an act of gallantry they are likely to regret on closer inspection. The quotation offered as A Misery of Human Life runs thus : "Walking fast and far to overtake a woman from 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."

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An old lady bewailing the loss of her peaches

1 pp 1780

Title from item.

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An open landscape

1 pp 1784

Open landscape with three horsemen in the mid-distance at centre, heading to right, path between blown trees in the foreground at left. This print was also released in a volume entitled "Imitations of Modern Drawings" which is referenced in the catalogue raisonné.

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Andrew T. Reid

1 pp 1932

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