Dr Greg Robertsさんのイラストまとめ

"As Laughter is often excited by the most simple causes, so frequently is Weeping, in this instance the hard & obdurate features, that would be callous to real sufferings melts at the fancied sorrows of a Village love Ballad. " - another study of the emotions by Rowlandson (1800)

"Laughter is one of the most pleasing of the Passions & is with difficulty accounted for, as risibility is frequently exited from the most simple causes. - As is the case with the Countryman & his Cat."
Some history of emotions here by Rowlandson, Jan 21st 1800 @ProfThomasDixon

A view of HMS Discovery once a support vessel for Captain Cook's third voyage but now a rat-infested convict ship moored alongside the Thames at #Deptford downriver from #London, (1828) - she was finally broken up in 1834

Sir John Lade, one of my favourite Regency period gadabouts - is in the process of doing a wheel spin around Tattersall's at Hyde Park, #London, in the summer of 1796

A view of the entrance to Carlton House from St James' Park #London c.1750 - you need to get past those two bouncers if you want to get in

Antiguan-born Robert 'Romeo' Coates, was a massively popular eccentric actor famed for his ability to invent dialogue and scenes mid-show, seen here in the role of Lothario in Nicholas Rowe's 'The Fair Penitant' at the Haymarket Theatre #London 9th December 1811

Lovely satire of Charles James Fox and Prime Minister #Pitt, #London 4th March 1797 - Fox is seen as he devil behind a recently failed French invasion force, but #Pitt (calling to mind the fate of the Spanish Armada) declares that Britain will not be taken

Meet Auntie Peg, a seemingly harmless old lady who loves cats, but NO - behind this pleasant facade sits an accomplished and cunning forger who tried to blackmail the Duke of Marlborough, #London March 4th 1791

@psimonk @wanstead_meteo @CuddefordTim Here's a peace offering featuring traffic congestion near Whipps Cross in April 1819 at the height of the new-fangled velocipede (cycling) craze

Another load of (would-be) cobblers from #London February 7th 1803
Four posh ladies are hard at work in a handsome room, seated on shoe-maker's benches with trays of tools beside them, whilst their foot-man serves hot chocolate