Amorous Illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson

Product Information

In a tent, a young, chubby girl, dressed in a hat and feather and high boots, brandishes a drawn sword in her right hand, and strutts about; with her left hand she holds up her clothes so that her naked legs are visible above the tops of the boots. A man in bed clutches his breeches, and appears to be calling for aid. In the foreground left is a badly drawn dog or cat. Signed: "Rowlandson Del". No. 71 of the Tegg series. The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus] (59.533.1833)". Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Collections Online | British Museum

Tom Jones Rescues Mrs Waters from the Violence of Northerton (59.533.560(6))". Metropolitan Museum of Art. A fat old man with a poker in his right hand, has discovered a young man and woman flagrante delicto; the youth, in his shirt, is on his knees before him, while the girl is seated on the bed weeping; she has a night cap on, but her breasts and legs are fully exposed. Signed: "Published Jan 1809. Rowlandson 1798". An old bawd is exhibiting the body of a young, and innocent-looking girl to an antiquated debauchee, who is peering at the naked breasts of the maiden through an eye-glass. Exterior. A very fat, middle aged woman is leaning against a cannon, her clothes are up above her waist, and a hussar, pipe in mouth, is enjoying her. Several other hussars, their members exposed, stand or sit around. This identification of the two subjects is questioned by the British Museum: "General Upton … looks too young to be a general, nor was there a general of this name in the Army List at this date." [214]Interior of a cloister. A bald, and very ugly monk is amorously gazing on the bare bosom of a girl who stands beside him, her hands joined as if in prayer; the holy man's right hand is on his penitent's breast, and his left reposes on her left shoulder. Signed: "Rowlandson fec 1800", and "Pub Jan y. 20. 1801. by S. W. Fores, N° 50 Piccadilly". Copy After Hans Sebald Beham's Woodcut "Vine Pattern With Satyr Family" (Sessler42)". Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Rowlandson, First Edition - AbeBooks Rowlandson, First Edition - AbeBooks

Smith, Bradley (1974). Erotic Art of the Masters: The 18th, 19th & 20th Centuries. Italy: Lyle Stuart, Inc. and Gemini-Smith, Inc. pp.16–20. There is much spirit in this composition, which is very pleasing, and the drawing of the figures is good." [7] The bulldog, however, is "very badly drawn". [7] George, Mary Dorothy (1942). Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Vol.7. Great Britain: British Museum Press.Drunkenness and debauchery run riot throughout the composition, which is full of movement. The drawing is not bad, but is scarcely more than in outline." [57] Ashbee quotes the opinion of a previous possessor of this drawing, who pronounced it to be "broad and forcible beyond description, and finer than Hogarth." [403] Lovers in a wooded landscape". Christie's. Live auction 7893. Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolours. R.A.'s of Genius Reflecting on the True Line of Beauty, at the Life Academy Somerset House (17.3.888-18)". Metropolitan Museum of Art. A young woman, quite nude, her left leg bent, and her left hand pressing her right breast, is refusing the solicitations of a naked Cupid, who is pulling her by the right hand; three obscene and satyric figures around. In the foreground, right, is a vase.