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"Boxing Match Between Ward and Quirk for 100 Guineas a Side," an 1812 fight depiction by artist Thomas Rowlandson.

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2022-08-02

During a heatwave, the let it all hang out... Saucy seaside postcards are nothing new! Summer amusement at Margate, or a peep at the mermaids, 1813, Thomas Rowlandson. Via the British Museum.

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2022-06-17

Humor, Caricature, Four Seasons, Rowlandson, Tegg

"The Four Seasons of Love" - Spring Summer, Autumn, Winter.

Copper etching after Thomas Rowlandson. Fine original hand coloring.

Publshed by Thomas Tegg

Originally published in London, 1814.

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2022-04-02

During a heatwave, the let it all hang out... Saucy seaside postcards are nothing new! Summer amusement at Margate, or a peep at the mermaids, 1813, Thomas Rowlandson. Via the British Museum.

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2021-07-19

Artist Spotlight 🔦 Thomas Rowlandson.

At the age of sixteen, Rowlandson lived and studied for a time in Paris. He later made frequent tours to the Continent. Rowlandson’s designs were usually done in outline with the reed-pen, and delicately washed with colour.

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2021-04-13

'Death Turned Pilot' - Death sits on the stern of a sinking lifeboat, holding up an hourglass. Below death, the oarsmen struggle and several passengers are washed overboard. A lonely tricorne hat bobs on the waves. Rowlandson. 1815 ()

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2021-03-13

Spiritual Lovers by Thomas Rowlandson. "Thou soon shalt be Bone of my Bone, and Flesh of my Flesh", and don't they both look thrilled about it?

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2021-02-14

Very amusing! Love alters...
"Select vestry comforts" 1828.

"The Four Seasons of Love" - Spring Summer, Autumn, Winter.
Copper etching after Thomas https://t.co/7bEUabZ2WH

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2021-01-17

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

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2020-09-20

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

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2020-09-01

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

On a hot summer day, the let it all hang out... Intrepid bathers and dirty old men have been the stuff of seaside scenes for centuries! Summer amusement at Margate, or a peep at the mermaids, 1813, Thomas Rowlandson. Via the British Museum.

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2020-06-24

Quarrelsome Lovers by Thomas Rowlandson. "How luckless the sorrowful Wight, Who sees with a termagant Spouse, Her Clamour from Morning till Night, Incessantly rings through the House..."

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2020-02-14

Happy The title of this dark little comic from 1815 is "The Honeymoon". There's a lot going on here, but can someone explain what's up with the dog?

By Thomas Rowlandson. In book The English Dance of Death, Vol 1, 1815. Getty Research Institute.

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2019-09-01

Quarrelsome Lovers by Thomas Rowlandson.

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2018-02-14

Boney and his new wife quarrel about nothing by Thomas Rowlandson.

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2016-08-30

French coffee house by Rowlandson. See other Rowlandson's in Cradled in Caricature

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2015-09-29