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Wapping Stairs by Thomas Rowlandson - watermen and a passenger, early 1800s https://t.co/kpaJntb1OJ

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2022-03-20

A Village Doctress Distilling Eyewater by Thomas Rowlandson

A rural medical practitioner, is shown using her own urine to create a medicine to dispel 'bad humours of the eye'. Many think this disease was cataract.

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2022-03-16

"Inquire at London, ’mongst the taverns there,
For there, they say, he daily doth frequent,
With unrestrained loose companions"

Richard II, Act 5, Scene 3
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Image: Tavern Interior by Thomas Rowlandson, c.1810-1815.

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2022-03-07

O god, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

Othello, Act 2, Scene 3


Image: Alehouse Politicians by Thomas Rowlandson, 1785-1790.

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2022-03-06

"He was a man
Of an unbounded stomach"

Henry VIII, Act 4, Scene 2
BEARDS, BELLIES & BEERS

Image: Bath Beau and Country Beau by Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1788-1790.

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2022-03-06

Dressing for the Masquerade by Thomas Rowlandson

Masquerade balls have been a feature of the season since the 15th century. Full of allegorical costumes, pageants and triumphant processions.

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2022-02-25

Thomas Rowlandson
A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing

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2022-02-03

DRUNKENNESS
"The Brilliants", Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1801 - The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
The only requirement of this club was that 24 full toasts be given before the drinking began in earnest.
>> The Virtual Wine Museum: https://t.co/IsUQeUF25k

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2022-02-02

I’ve spent today in the special collections of Glasgow University library examining a few things from the extensive Danse Macabres of the Gemmell Collection. This is Death’s Door from Thomas Rowlandson’s The English Dance of Death from 1815

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2022-01-29

Death says please drink responsibly this
The Last Drop, Thomas Rowlandson, 1801

https://t.co/8WrpUy89CR

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2022-01-01

Thomas Rowlandson, Libel Hunters on the Look Out, or Daily Examiners of the Liberty of the Press, April 12, 1810 https://t.co/MAMCc9NdRl

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2021-12-17

Thomas Rowlandson, Rowlandson's Sketches from Nature: Fowey, Cornwall, 1809 https://t.co/Xgbo0E7swm

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2021-12-16

Watercolour drawing of Peg Woffington by Thomas Rowlandson (used on the cover of Helen Brooks’ Actresses, Gender and the Eighteenth-century Stage). Seated before a mirror. Done after 1800, based on the mezzotint by Faber, after Eccardt. In the collection Library.

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2021-12-08

Portrait d'une dame par Thomas Rowlandson, peintre, dessinateur graveur Britannique (1757-1827) plume et encre grise avec aquarelle

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2021-11-10

Or Thomas Rowlandson (many of his cartoons might be too filthy for this early in the morning but I think I'll be OK with this one)

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2021-11-10

Okay, I'm obsessed with this Rowlandson caricature, because it feels like the lady's 'plumpness' is presented as saucy, rather than gross. Love that concept.

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2021-10-27

Thomas Rowlandson, Rowlandson's Sketches from Nature: Fowey, Cornwall, 1809 https://t.co/Xgbo0E7swm

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2021-10-26

Ok, this is absolutely my last devil-related tweet for but it has helped in the interminable wait for my doctor’s appointment. This is ‘Humbugging, or Raising the Devil’ by Thomas Rowlandson, 1800. 😈

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2021-09-29