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"Boxing Match Between Ward and Quirk for 100 Guineas a Side," an 1812 fight depiction by artist Thomas Rowlandson.
During a heatwave, the #gloriousGeorgians 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.
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.
During a heatwave, the #gloriousGeorgians 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.
#TheGuardRoom, #LambethPalace, #London. #AUGUSTUSCHARLESPugin & #ThomasRowlandson. #Ackermann, Rudolph. #TheMicrocosmofLondon (London, 1835), vol. II.
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3 📷©Peter Dazeley
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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.
'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 (@metmuseum) #mementomori #skeleton #shipwreck
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? #art #valentinesday #gloriousGeorgians
Very amusing! Love alters...
"Select vestry comforts" 1828.
"The Four Seasons of Love" - Spring Summer, Autumn, Winter.
Copper etching after Thomas #Rowlandson. https://t.co/7bEUabZ2WH
"The Dance of Death" (1816) By Thomas Rowlandson. Credit to @WellcomeLibrary #macabre
RT @GeorgianGent: New post: A trip to the theatre with Thomas Rowlandson. https://t.co/zNbQejwIvj
Death is at it again. Illustrations from THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH, VOL. 1 (1815) by Thomas Rowlandson.
On a hot summer day, the #gloriousGeorgians 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.
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..." #GloriousGeorgians #art #valentinesday
Boney and his new wife quarrel about nothing by Thomas Rowlandson. #art #twitterstorians
#InternationalCoffeeDay French coffee house by Rowlandson. See other Rowlandson's in Cradled in Caricature