- Description
- 24 prints : etching, aquatint, some col.; 29.8 x 35.2 cm. or smaller.
- Summary
- Social and political caricatures of various subjects, including fashion, pawnbrokers, prostitutes, teachers and waitresses. Individuals depicted include the Emperor Napoleon, Mrs. Clarke and the Duke of York, Andrew Bell and Sir Lumley Skeffington. Book illustrations include plates from R. Ackermann's Microcosm of London and W. Combe's Johnny Quae Genus.
- Subjects
- Prints > English > 1700-1799
- Prints > English > 1800-1899
- Caricatures > English > 1800-1899
- Caricatures > English > 1700-1799
- Waitresses
- Teachers
- Voice teachers
- Prostitutes
- Pawnbrokers
- Jews
- Hay > Harvesting
- Fashion
- Great Britain > Exchequer
- Great Britain > Parliament > House of Lords
- Skeffinton, Lumley St. George > Sir, > 1771-1850
- Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821
- Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
- Combe, William, 1742-1823 > History of Johnny Quae Genus
- Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852
- Bell, Andrew, 1753-1832
- Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834 > Microcosm of London
- Genre/Form
- Caricatures – English – 1700-1799.
- Caricatures – English – 1800-1899.
- Prints – English – 1800-1899.
- Prints – English – 1700-1799.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Cite As (note)
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Holdings checked in departmental copy of Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the caricaturist. New York: J.W. Barton, 1880.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of Caricature Collection.
- Contents
- 1. Fast Day -- 2. A Sailor Miss-taken -- 3. [A Lady in Limbo, or Jew Bail Rejected] -- 4. Pilgrims and the Peas -- 5. The Monstrous Craw; or a New Discovered Animal -- 6. The Last Shift -- 7. The Beast as Described in the Revelations, Chap. 13, Resembling Napoleon Buonaparte -- 8. Court of Exchequer, Westminster Hall -- 9. House of Lords -- 10. Dissolution of Partnership or the Industrious Mrs. Clarke winding up her Accounts -- 11. Mrs. Clarke's Last Effort!! -- 12. The Modern Babel, or Giants Crush'd by a Weight of Evidence -- 13. Searched by the Douaniers on the French Frontier -- 14. Quae Genus Reading to Sir Jeffery Gourmond -- 15. Quae Genus in the Service of a Miser -- 16. A Glee. How shall we Mortals Spend our Hours? In Love! In War! In Drinking! -- 17. Rural Sports, or a Pleasant Way of Making Hay -- 18. Death and Bonaparte -- 19. The Old Woman's Complaint, or The Greek Alphabet -- 21. A Musical Doctor & his Scholars -- 21. Slap-bang Shop -- 22. Bell and the Dragon -- 23. Dr. O. Meara -- 24. Paris Dilligence.
- Call Number
- MEZYRK (Rowlandson)
- OCLC
- NYPG95-F83
- Author
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
- Title
Caricatures and book illustrations [graphic].
- Imprint
1799-1821.
- Restricted Access
Restricted access; Print Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Cite As:
Caricature Collection.
- Indexes
Holdings checked in departmental copy of Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the caricaturist. New York: J.W. Barton, 1880.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of Caricature Collection.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
MEZYRK (Rowlandson)