The English painter Thomas Rowlandson became famous for his socially critical caricatures. His erotic, sometimes even pornographic pictures were strongly influenced by the paintings of the French Rococo.
The son of a respected merchant was born in London, where he later studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, followed by several courses of study in Paris. He started with portraits and landscapes, but the etcher James Gillray, as well as Henry William Bunbury inspired him to caricature painting, which finally brought him attention and success, so in 1784 the paintings of Vauxhall Gardens. The publisher Rudolph Ackermann published in his Poetical Magazine a large number of colored aquatint sheets by Rowlandson, which is based on a special process of artistic printmaking that uses surface etching. Books by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smolett, Laurence Sterne or Oliver Goldsmith were illustrated with drawings by Thomas Rowlandson. English journals distributed his caricatures.
Even as vicious as his pictures seemed to be his way of life. He had a great passion for betting and gambling, which repeatedly got him into financial difficulties. Nevertheless he reached the age of 71 years. He died in his birthplace London. Works like The Toss off, poem and illustrations or The Adulturers discovered still find lovers as well as outrage.
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.jpg "Sunset over the Plain of Barbizon by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Cook by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Old Man Leafing Through a Print Album, Next to Him His Young Wife by T. Smith")
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.jpg "Interior View of the Sessions House, Old Bailey, with a Court in Session, City of London by Augustus Charles Pugin")
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.jpg "Study for Royal Chapel, Whitehall, in Micocosm of London by Augustus Charles Pugin")
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.jpg "Mortimer Street, Marylebone, London by Joseph Constantine Stadler")
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.jpg "Patriotic Dinner in London, 1813 by R. Reeves")
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.jpg "Study for Whitehall Chapel, from Microcosm of London by Augustus Charles Pugin")
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.jpg "Study for Wedgwood and Byerly, York Street, St James")
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.jpg "The Departure by Joseph Constantine Stadler")
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.jpg "Philanthropic Society Institution Chapel, London Road, Southwark, London by Edward Blackburn")
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.jpg "A Book Auction by Otto Limited")
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.jpg "Study for Court of Common Pleas, Westminster Hall, from Microcosm of London by Augustus Charles Pugin")
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.jpg "The Departure, from Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, 1813 by Joseph Constantine Stadler")
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.jpg "Study for St. Stephen")
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.jpg "Study for Stamp Office (from Microcosm of London) by Augustus Charles Pugin")
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.jpg "Dolphins Inn: Greenwich and Woolwich Coaches by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Journalist, with a view of Auchinleck or the Land of Stones by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Three Sportsmen Sleeping at the Table in Their Chairs by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Interior of a Stable by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Recruiting Officer by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Execution of two famous enemies of old England, Guy Fawkes and Napoleon Buonaparte - Their last speech, on the gallows by Thomas Rowlandson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1425277).jpg "Meditations among the Tombs by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Doctor Syntax at Liverpool, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Secret Influence Directing the New P-l-t by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Soldiers Carousing in a Cellar by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "A Drowsy Sot by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Mock Phoenix! Or a Vain Attempt to Rise Again by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Satirical political cartoon of Napoleon by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Open Carriage and Coach in a Quasi-Dutch Street by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Fête at Boodles Club, Ranelagh, in Honor of George III by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Napoleon Selling Stolen Goods, 1813 (Mock Auction or Boney Selling Stolen Goods) by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Napoleon as a False Phoenix, 1813 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1364741).jpg "Smoking Out the Corsican, 1813 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Corsican Spider, in His Web! by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Monks Carousing Outside a Monastery by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Napoleon Selling Stolen Goods, 1813 (Mock auction or Boney selling stolen goods) by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Obese Man Courting a Tuberculosis Patient: Dropsy and Consumption, Early 19th Century (Caricature) by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Learning to Smoke and Drink Grog by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Doctor Syntax Loses His Money on the Race Track at York by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Doctor Syntax with a Woman in a Library by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Fish market, Dam Square, Amsterdam, Netherlands by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Lady Elliott, Commonly Called Dolly The Tall by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Postboys and Posthorses at the White Hart Inn by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Study for The Honeymoon by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Junot Disgorging His Booty, October 17, 1808 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Alms House of Tottenham by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Dutch Merchants Sketched at Amsterdam by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Carriage Horses and Hostlers by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Amputation by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Boat Builders by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Preparation for the Academy—Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Solitude at Strawberry Hill by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Doctor Syntax Pursued by a Bull, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Sweet Little Girl That I Love by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Village Dance by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Doctor Syntax Sells Grizzle, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Tricks of the Turf, or, Settling how to Lose a Race by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Rider Thrown at a Hunt by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Vicar of Wakefield by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Doctor Syntax Taking Possession of his Living, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Paris Diligence by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Preparing to Start by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Doctor Syntax at a Review, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Woman Caught Stealing a Drink by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Captain Squander Bang Up to the Mark by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Coach Changing Horses by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Doctor Syntax Rural Sport, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax by Thomas Rowlandson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1297891).jpg "The Travels of Doctor Syntax (Furnishing Fabric) by Thomas Rowlandson")
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