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The House of Lords chamber looks like this, when peers are sitting. But currently they’re on recess and back in ten days. It’s a chance to get odd jobs done while they’re not around. (Image: Rowlandson and Pugin, Microcosm of London, 1809)

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2020-10-16

‘Dr Syntax and his Wife making an experiment in pneumatics’, Laughing gas (nitrous oxide) parties were popular in the 1820s and 1830s. The illustrations are by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), a British artist and caricaturist.

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2020-10-06

The Rev. Dr. Syntax Reading his Tour, Thomas Rowlandson https://t.co/aHXw8AIuiL

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2020-10-04

Invented in 1772 & described by poet Robert Southey as “a wonder-working gas of delight”, laughing gas (nitrous oxide) was used as popular entertainment at parties ~ as here depicted by Thomas Rowlandson ~ until its use as a surgical anaesthetic was recognised in 1840s

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2020-10-03

"The Dance of Death" (1816) By Thomas Rowlandson. Credit to

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2020-09-20

Coloured drawing by Thomas Rowlandson, 1775, showing two grave robbers at work while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of them from behind.

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2020-09-13

The Nursery from The English Dance of Death.
Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827)
1816, Pencil and watercolour.



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2020-09-09

Thomas Rowlandson 13 July 1756 – 21 April 1827 was an English artist and caricaturist.
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2020-09-08

"Exhibition ''Stare'' Case"
Thomas Rowlandson
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2020-09-08

RT : New post: A trip to the theatre with Thomas Rowlandson. https://t.co/zNbQejwIvj

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2020-09-01

Ink beautiful drawing, with coloured washes, is ascribed to Rowlandson and is part of our Gerald Coke Handel Collection.

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2020-08-31

Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827)
Mark Antony and Cleopatra, 1788
Pencil and watercolour



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2020-08-11

What takes place behind the closed restaurant kitchen door? Here, an example of what patrons wouldn’t want to see; “Dinners Drest in the Neatest Manner” by Thomas Rowlandson (1811)

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2020-08-08

Death is at it again. Illustrations from THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH, VOL. 1 (1815) by Thomas Rowlandson.

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2020-08-07