town of Hertford is one of the finest and most interesting of those
drawings which Rowlandson has left of the quaint towns of his day.
It is altogether of an important character, being nearly 30 inches
in length. It represents the Town Hall, the market-place, and
certain picturesque ancient houses, faced with carved scroll-work,
which front the corner hard by. The traveller will find these
buildings exactly as Rowlandson viewed them a century ago; and, on
a market-day, he will see the dealers' stalls, the country people
busying themselves about their purchases, and the gentry passing or
riding by, called to the town on local affairs, in some respects
the same as a century ago. This scene, animated in itself as it
is presented in our day, falls very far short of the prospect the
artist has preserved, for the antique costumes have disappeared; and,
comfortable as may be those of the generation who occupy themselves
on the spot, the attractions found in the caricaturist's picture
are looked for in vain; for the light flowing robes, the hats and
feathers which aided the winning graces of the fair, the nodding
plumes, and the scarlet and gold of the military bucks, the rustling
silk cassocks, shovel-hats, and full-bottom wigs of the Church
dignitaries, and all such characteristic accessories of the scene,
no longer display themselves to assist the observer's sense of the
picturesque.
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON. (COLLECTION OF W. T. B. ASHLEY,
ESQ., DECEASED.)
The Faro Table at Devonshire House. 1797.
Bricklayers' Arms on a Race Day.
Rape of the Sabines.
Nymphs of King's Place.
Prize Fight between Cribb and Molyneux.
Portrait of a Pugilist.
Tilbury Fort. The Stile.
Windy Weather.
Female Portrait.
'Thus, whatsoever course we bend, at every mess we find a friend.'
Exhibition of Baboons at the Tower Menagerie.
Going from Market.
Rag Fair in 1802.
The Punch Bowl, or the Loving Cup, with Commodore Regaling. (Grog on
Board.)
The Peasant Girl and Amorous Dignitary.
Village, with old Inn and Church. Market Day.
The Coal Hole. (Figures eating oysters, drinking punch, &c.)
The Family Supper.
The Sick Man, surrounded by his Family.
Napoleon, on his return from Elba, Surveying Paris from the Window of
the Tuileries.
The Old English Drinking Club, with effects of alcohol after free
libations to Bacchus. 1798.
The Mischievous Urchin and the Blind Fiddler.
Man Selling Images. Man Selling Fowls. Man Selling Cakes. (Cries of
London.)
An Enthusiastic Itinerant Preacher: the Adventures of Thomas
Wildgoose.
The Town Crier.
Mutual Recriminations, and Plymouth Dock.
The Oyster Wench.
The Pic Nic.
Anatomical Lecture.
The Chelsea Stage Coach.
The Squire's Kitchen.
Barrow Women Basting the Beadle.
Militia Meeting.
Drawing from Life at the Academy. 'Given to my old friend, John
Thomas Smith.'
Nymphs Bathing. Satyr and Nymphs. Nymphs and Tritons.
Scene at a Steeple Chase.
Figures Carousing, Death in Waiting. (Deadly-lively.)
Milk Seller. The Unsuspicious Husband.
An Artist Painting a Portrait.
Villagers Dancing to a Fiddle.
Interior of a Church during a Sermon.
William Hill, the Blind Sexton at Cambridge.
The Burglars.
Sale by Auction of Old Materials at Westminster; with view of the
Abbey and old houses.
Greenwich, with view of the Old Salutation Tavern.
The Studio.
Bathing.
Sitting out a Long Sermon.
The Milkmaid.
The Old Commodore, Admiral Paisley.
Harlow Bush Fair.
Rooks Waiting for Pigeons.
Posting in Scotland. Posting in Ireland.
Saving the Old China from Fire.
Hunting Party, with Hounds, at the door of an Inn.
Funeral Ceremony.
Group of Soldier and Sweetheart.
An Auctioneer.
Specimens of Comparative Anatomy, and Illustrations of the
Pythagorean Doctrine. (A series.)
Peace and Plenty.
How to get rid of a troublesome Customer.
A Catchpenny.
Interior of an Eating House.
The Vicar Removed.
Delineations of the Passions and various phases of Character. (A
series.)
Teetotal Feast.
Monkey Island.
Scene by the River.
The Magic Lantern.
Village, with Procession of Dignitaries of the Church to the Tavern.
Drunken Pensioner in a Critical Position.
Mrs. Sturt and her Pupils.
Stock Jobbers.
Sepulchres.
Domestic Jars.
Cranbourn Alley.
The Gourmand.
Nobleman Cutting down his Timber to Pay his Debts of Honour.
Tax Gatherers.
The Reading Room.
Evening Party.
Leaving Home.
Wayside Inn.
Parties at an Inn-door.
The Post Chaise.
Apothecary's Shop.
The Old Gentleman and his Young Wife.
Groups of Human Heads. (A series.)
The Broken Pitcher.
Jupiter and Leda.
Tender Appeal.
Petition.
Skating Scene.
Wrestling Match.
Balloon Hunting.
'We three Cunning Dogs be.'
[Illustration: THE APPARITION.]
Three Dignitaries of the Church.
The Special Pleader.
Scene in the Opera.
Horns to Sell.
Selling the Elixir of Life.
The Meat Market Evacuated, or the Sans-Culottes in Possession.
Flea-Catching.
A Turk and a Tartar.
Neapolitan Tricks.
Interior of a Pawnbroker's Shop.
A Scold.
The Shipwreck.
Robbing the Miser of his Gold.
The Bachelor's Bitter Cup.
The Vicar at Dinner.
The Old Husband and Young Wife.
The Apothecary's Shop. Death at the Mortar.
Selling Signor Puffado's Sauce à la Russe.
Portsmouth Point.
A Woolcomber at Work.
Elopement from School.
The Hurdy-Gurdy Player.
Connoisseurs Looking at a Picture.
An Old Hag Looking out of Window, with a Cock and Breeches Below.
An Elderly Lady at her Toilet, holding a Rose and viewing herself in
a Mirror, &c.
Good News--Bad News.
A Pig's Whisper.
A Waiting Maid's Insinuation.
Scene with Highwaymen.
Halfway House.
Mishaps.
One Tree Hill, Greenwich Park.
Rural Recreation.
Cottages near Buckingham.
The Laboratory.
Money-Changers.
Nuns at Devotion.
Nuns at a Window, Selling their Wares to Admiring Cavaliers.
('Pastime in Portugal.')
Launceston, Cornwall, an Auction Proceeding.
Sea Coast, with Fishermen.
Eating Oysters, a First Course.
Market Day.
Landscape, with Figures Dancing before a Country Alehouse.
Skittle-Playing, &c.
Landscape, with Sportsmen and Cottage.
View on the River, 1791.
Sketches of Two Female Figures.
Rural Courtship.
The Old Debauchee Carried to Bed.
The Unequal Match.
Hulls of Men-of-War Ready to be Launched.
'Sculls? Oars?'
The Market-Mishap.
Landscape, with Monks at Devotion.
Farm-shed: Children at Play.
The Sick Patient, the Doctor, and the Enraged Wife.
Divinities and Divines.
Surgeon and Apothecary.
Mrs. Grant's Bagnio.
Watchmen Taking an Unprotected Female to Prison.
Country House. Figures at Table.
Dr. Accum Lecturing at the Surrey Institution.
Funeral Procession from a Country Mansion.
The Old Bailey during a Trial.
Departure of a Bride and Bridegroom in a Post-Chaise.
Levée Day at St. James's--Going to Court.
Hull of a Man-of-War.
Interior of a Kitchen--Family at Dinner.
The Apparition.
Blacksmith's Shop.
Old Alehouse Door.
Clearing the Premises without Consulting your Landlord.
'Be cautious upon what you fix your affections, and withdraw your
neck from the yoke.'
The Old Commodore.
The Apothecary in Adoration.
Heads of Doctor Gosset, Governor Wall, and Doctor Gall, 'drawn by T.
Rowlandson, and given to his old friend, Mr. John Thomas Smith.'
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON IN THE POSSESSION OF THE EDITOR
OF THE PRESENT VOLUMES.
The Tuileries at Paris.
A Celebration at the Great Room of the 'Crown and Anchor' Tavern.
Love and Dust.
Large Landscape--View in Wales: Fishing, Netting, &c.
Summer Amusement, or a Game at Bowls.
Large Classic Landscape--Water Nymphs, &c.
A Press Gang.
Dissolution of Partnership, or Striking a Balance.
_Une Bonne Bouche!_ (A Titanic gourmand with an entire sucking-pig
impaled on his fork.)
A Turk and a Tartar (the Tartar in this instance being a
high-spirited nymph, a flower-girl).
A Cry for a Cat. (A beadle going round with his bell, &c.)
A Travelling Princess, and an Indifferent Ambassador. (Caroline of
Brunswick, &c.)
Sortie from a Levée.
New Flora.
Awkward Attendant--'Hints to Footmen.' (On the reverse the sketch of
'a Masquerade.')
Private Amusement--Noble Science of Boxing. 'Nobility and Gentry
taught.'
Fashionable Beauties. (A pair of Nymphs of St. James's.)
A Nincompoop, or Henpecked Husband.
Ram Inn at Newmarket--Card-Sharpers and Countrymen.
[Illustration: SORTIE FROM A LEVÉE.]
A Little Tighter.
Sly Boots.
The Apparition.
How to Treat a Refractory Member.
A Finishing School.
Luxury and Avarice.
Lust and Desire.
'The Vicar of Wakefield.'
'The Vicar of Wakefield': The Family Picture.
The Old Bailey.
Hunting Scene in a Park.
A Park--Horses and Figures.
View of Clifton.
Garden Pastimes.
Rocky Landscape:--Bathers at a Stream.
Hussar taking Refreshment at a Cottage Door.
John Thomas Serres. The Husband of the Princess (The 'Princess' Olive
of Cumberland).
Miseries of Reading and Writing:--'Losing the post when you would as
willingly lose your life.'
Syrens Catching a Porpoise.
Rag Fair, 1801.
Landscape Scene.
A Mad Dog in a Dining Room. (See 1809, page 133.)
Clifton from the Heights.
[Illustration: A TOAD-EATER.]
The Quay.
A Shipping Scene.
Greenwich Geese.
A Wild Landscape.
A Toad-Eater.
Incantations.
The Dolphin Inn.
Bob Derry of Newmarket.
Buy my Strawberries.
An Old Sinner.
Stolen Kisses.
The Highwayman betrayed.
A Prize Fight.
Contrasts: The Long and the Short of it.
A Clockmaker's Shop.
A Neapolitan Ambassador. (Lady Hamilton, &c.)
Seeking among the Slain after the Fall of Troy.
Forget and Forgive, or Honest Jack shaking hands with Mynheer.
Playing Tricks upon Travellers; or, Disturbed by Sham Spectres.
Veteran Topers.
A Jew Family.
Lethargy.
A Nun of Winter's Sisterhood.
The Butterfly Fancier on the Wing, or the Tulip Fancier's Flower Beds
Sacrificed.
Pair of Female Figures.
Smoking a Customer.
Preparing to Start.
Landscape, Sea-Shore, Boat-Building.
Monmouth.
Entrance to the Town of Carnarvon, Wales. 1804.
Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Cottage in Devonshire.
Lord Fitzwilliam's seat near Malton, Yorkshire. 1803.
Oxford Jockeys, or the Landlord in Trouble for his Cattle.
[Illustration: SMOKING A CUSTOMER.]
Dutch Market Women landing at the Brill.
View on the Maeze, Holland.
Dock Head.
Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight.
Market Place at Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Mode of Travelling in Holland.
Travelling in Germany.
Travelling in the Prussian Dominions.
The Market Place, Dusseldorf.
View of a Post House in the Emperor of Germany's Dominions.
Inn Yard at Cologne.
Brighton Downs.
Blackheath.
View of the Thames from Blackheath.
Diana in the Straw, or the Squire, a treat for the Quornites.
Trying on her Mistress's Clothes, or a peep into the Kitchen. 1801.
The Castatrophe, or Crash to the Grandmother's old China.
A Visit from Houndsditch to Pall Mall.
Admiral Nelson recruiting with his brave Tars after the Battle of the
Nile.
Views of Oxford and Cambridge:--
North View of Friar Bacon's Study at Oxford.
View of Oxford Castle.
View of Queen's College, Oxford.
A View of the Theatre, Printing House, &c., Oxford.
Inside View of the Cupola in the public Library.
Merton College and Chapel, from the First Quadrangle.
Merton College. Oxford.
A Western View of All Souls' College. Oxford.
The Libraries and Schools from Exeter College Gardens.
A South View of the Observatory. Oxford.
St. Peter's House. Cambridge.
Trinity College. Cambridge.
King's College and part of Clare Hall. Cambridge.
View of Jesus College. Cambridge.
Trinity College and Library, and part of St. John's College,
Cambridge.
Views in Cornwall, Devon, &c.
View on Bodmin Downs. Cornwall.
Hamethothey Mill. Cornwall.
Hengar House, near Camelford, the seat of Matthew Mitchell, Esq.
Cornish Cottages.
Corn-mill in Cornwall.
Cornish Scene.
Collecting the Tythes.
Liskeard Moors. Cornwall.
St. Columb. Cornwall.
St. Kew Church near Wade Bridge. Cornwall.
View near Bodmin in Cornwall.
Treelile House, North Cornwall.
Cottage, near Landhearn. Cornwall.
The Barrow Sands. North Coast. Cornwall.
Stone Bridge. Cornwall.
Hengar Woods, near Camelford. Cornwall.
Hengar Woods. (Another view.)
Cottage on the Router Moor, near Camelford. Cornwall.
Vicarage of St. Udy, near Bodmin. Cornwall.
Stone Bridge. Cornwall.
Shipwreck. Cornwall.
Monastery. Cornwall.
Near Truro. Cornwall.
View of the Convent at Landhearn, near St. Columb. Cornwall.
The seat of Lord Arundale.
Cottage in Cornwall.
Old Buildings. Cornwall.
Roadside and Bridge. Cornwall.
Cottage near Launceston. Cornwall.
The Disbanded Soldier.
Camelford Cattle Fair. Cornwall.
Cottage. Devonshire.
Near Plymouth.
A Travelling Tinker. View at Fair Point. Plymouth.
View near Taunton. Somersetshire.
Taunton Vale. Somersetshire.
A Wheelwright. Devonshire.
Country Carpenters. Devonshire.
Near Conway. North Wales.
Falls, Conway. North Wales.
Wells.
Bath.
Bath Races.
Pump Room. Bath.
The Bath. Bath.
City of Norwich.
Ouse Bridge. York.
York Cathedral.
Entrance to the Town of York during the Races.
Views on the Thames:--
Richmond.
Town Hall and Market Place at Kingston-upon-Thames.
Mr. Zoffany's House at Chiswick.
Greenwich.
Near Pyrfleet.
Fishing House at Chertsey.
Hampton Bridge.
Hampton Wick.
Near Richmond.
Near Datchett.
Near Bray.
The Waggoner's Rest. Moonlight.
War time. Gun, Horses, and Ammunition.
Embarkation of Troops for La Vendée.
Troops on the March; convoying Stores.
The Surrey Fencibles dispersing the Rioters in St. George's Fields.
June 13, 1795.
Embarkation of Cavalry.
Troops on the March; Bag and Baggage.
Waggoners.
The Passage Boat.
The Serenade.
Hunting Morning.
Market Day at Aberystwith.
Camp-followers.
Near Lewes. Sussex.
Disasters of the Streets. Chairmen in a Dilemma.
Coach in a Slough.
A Coach Wrecked.
Turks.
Returning from a Country Party.
The Smithy.
A Showery Day.
Fireside at an Inn.
A Bar Parlour.
Devotion.
Rag Fair. Pair of Views.
Concerto Spirituale.
The Dog Barber. La Francia.
The Village Barber.
An Unwelcome Visitor.
New Shoes.
Shot at a Hawk. Scene at Newmarket.
Sunday Morning at Cambridge.
Visit to the Camp.
Patience in a Punt.
A Town-bred Brat. 1802.
A Wayside Meeting.
College Service.
Stock Jobbers.
Loan Contractors.
The Propagation of a Lie (in three slips).
The Pleasures of the Country, or returning from a Visit across a
Muddy Road.
A Snug Rubber, or Playing for the Odd Trick.
Making a Bowl of Punch.
Old Age, Condolence on Crutches.
Saved.
Drowned.
Jerry Sneak and Mr. Sullen. A Henpecked Husband.
Scene from 'King John.'
_Arthur._ Let me not be bound.
Nay, hear me, Hubert, drive those men away.
A Flat between two Sharps. Outside a Billiard Room. 1803.
A Journeyman Tailor.
Green and Large Cucumbers.
The Dancing Bear; or, the Graces, the Graces, remember the Graces!
Counsellor Humbug, or Guardians of our Property, here and hereafter.
Quaker Courtship. Waiting for the Movement of the Spirit.
Methodists broke Loose.
Market Place, Richmond, in Yorkshire.
Green Man near Nottingham. 1803.
View of Nottingham.
The Meal in the Shade.
Labourers at Rest.
Near Canterbury.
Officers Holding a Review.
Fish Market at Brighton.
The Rising Sun. Halt at an Inn.
Putting off to Sea. A Breezy Day.
Cabin of a Man-of-War. Drinking a Toast.
A Cottage Scene. Washing Day. Pigs Feeding.
Exeter Gaol.
A Man-of-War.
Devon.
Lincoln.
Market Day. The Golden Fleece.
View of Stamford, Lincolnshire.
Cattle at a Waterfall.
The Royal Oak.
Country Courtship.
Near Honiton. Devonshire.
Farm Yard near Honiton. Devonshire.
Sunday Morning.
Returning from Work.
The Waggoner's Inn.
Waterside Inn. 'The Boatman's Rest.'
Resting beside a Barn.
Carnarvon Castle Gate.
The Windmill.
The Sailor Saved.
Near Beverley. 1803.
Ships Unloading.
Driving Home Cargo.
View of the River Itchen, near Southampton.
Southampton Waters.
Carisbrook Church and Castle, Isle of Wight.
Soldiers Drinking.
Troops stopping to Refresh on their Road to Join the Camp on Barham
Downs. Aug. 20, 1799.
Returning from a Race.
Cottages and Park.
The Road to the River.
Waggon and Horses Climbing a Hill.
Saturday Night. Repose from Toil.
The Wounded Soldier. 1804.
Horsemen Drinking outside an Inn.
Newgate. Morning of an Execution.
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON. (COLLECTION OF THOMAS CAPRON,
ESQ., ARUNDEL HOUSE, RICHMOND.)
Mr. Capron's selection contains numerous subjects from the
collections of Lord Farnham and the late W. T. Ashley, Esq. Besides
being the owner of a very fine selection of the best prints after
Rowlandson, many of considerable size, value, and importance,
(for the loan of several choice examples, which are both rare
and difficult to obtain, the writer begs to record his grateful
acknowledgments to the fortunate possessor;) Mr. Capron has also
collected quite a gallery of original drawings; among the number
are some truly capital examples. The titles of a selection from the
numerous subjects are as follow. (See also the collection of the late
Mr. Ashley.)
French Barracks.
Cries of London.
Plymouth Dock.
Street Musicians.
Portsmouth Point.
The Love Letter.
Grog Aboard.
The Female Volunteer.
Relief from Hard Study.
Hen and Chickens.
Late Hours at Mrs. Sturt's.
Temptation.
A Snooking Kenn.
_Fiez-vous à Filles_: Stripping a Cully.
Illustrations from _Johnny Quæ Genus_. Waiting on a Lady of Fashion.
Unpleasant Reflections.
State Pledges.
Matrimony. (_Dance of Life._)
The Cobbler's Method.
A Domestic Scrimmage.
'The Long wished-for Day come at Last.'
All Souls.
Beyond a Joke.
Nuns at Devotion.
Snow-balling the Blackamoor.
Concert à la Catalini.
Money Bags. A Golden Shower.
Westminster Abbey.
A Levee, St. James's Palace.
Presence Chamber, St. James's Palace.
Stock Exchange.
Brewers' Horses.
Arrival of the Post Boy.
Epsom Downs, or More Downs than One. 1816.
John Bull stuck in a bog in France.
Jean Crapaud run away with in England.
The Laboratory.
A Duck. 1823.
Humours of a Rustic Inn.
The Club.
The Coal Hole.
The Cock Tavern, Fleet Street.
Mutual Recriminations.
Dragging the Pond.
A Pic-Nic. The Social Day. 1812.
Dinner at the Fair.
Althorpe Wells, Discovered by Queen Anne's Physician.
Leaving Home.
Clearing the Premises without Consulting your Landlord.
A British Tar, and Charitable Feelings.
Trying to Move a Jew.
Jew and Gentile, or Old Clothes and Doll Tearsheet.
A Superannuated Beau.
Ballet Master at the Opera House.
A French Noble in his Shooting Dress Sketched at Boulogne, 1778.
First September, Trying the Sight.
Introducing a Pigeon to a Hazard Table.
William Cussons, Shaver. John Street, Adelphi.
The Walking Stewart, an Eccentric Character.
Dirty Work, Levee Day, or Court Ceremony.
Katharine and the Tailor.
A Banker's. (The Spider's Web). A Ready Money Customer.
A Banker's. (The Wasp). A Discount.
A Lowland Family.
Putting a Husband to Bed.
Old Cronies.
Recruiting.
The Ménage.
Billiards.
Lost and Won. Red Wins.
Saving the Old China from Fire.
Posting in Ireland.
Posting in Scotland.
French War. Interior of a French Prison. (An Abbey.)
A Cooper. A Farrier.
Travelling Savoyard. An Itinerant Showman. Bear, Monkey, and
Performing Dogs.
Innocent Cause.
The Magic Lantern. A Galantee Show.
Sham Fits. 1802.
Deadly-Lively.
Doctor Graham's Cold Earth and Warm Mud Bath.
Volunteer Foot. Westminster Light Horse.
Admiral Paisley--'The Tough Old Commodore.'
Why, the bullets and the gout
Have so knocked his hull about
That he'll never like the sea any more!
Rent Day. A Light Piece.
An Apothecary.
A Ridotto.
A Pastoral Piper.
A Fresh Graduate.
Pomona, or Ripe Fruit.
Life Academy, Somerset House. T. Rowlandson. With inscription by the
Artist: 'Given to my old friend Smith.'[32]
The Graces.
Nicolas Poussin: Venus, Mars, and the Loves.
Bellona.
An Apotheosis. Prometheus.
Nessus and Dejanira.
Acis and Galatea pursued by Polyphemus.
Etruscan Frescoes.
Venus and Cupid.
Neptune discovering Venus to the Tritons.
Pan and Syrinx.
Tritons and Nereids.
Doctor Syntax and the Bees.
'Doctor Primrose Preaching to the Prisoners,' and numerous
illustrations to the 'Vicar of Wakefield.'
The major part of the Illustrations to 'The Dance of Life,' and a few
Examples of the Designs for 'The Dance of Death.'
Pair of Large Hunting Scenes.
Diving Belles.
The Introduction. Mrs. Sturt's.
Mrs. Sturt and her Pupils (from Mr. Ashley's Collection).
Tuileries Gardens.
Stowe Gardens.
Richmond Hill.
THE FOLLOWING DRAWINGS HAVE ALSO COME UNDER THE EDITOR'S ATTENTION.
A Tailor's Wedding.
The Unwelcome Intruder. (1803.)
The Rival Butchers.
The Cobbler.
The Fishmonger.
Animal Magnetism: the Centre of Attraction.
The Alchemist.
The Pavior's Joy.
The Clamorous Tax-gatherer calling on the Doctor.
The Old Admiral.
Apples! a Street Cry.
Alms. An admiral (with a wooden leg) and his family relieving an
invalided old sailor.
Mrs. Shevi in a Longing Condition (for a Little Pig).
Chevalier D'Eon at Angelo's Rooms. 'Angelo's Fencing Academy, also
the Broadsword Exercise, Boxing, &c. Terms for Fencing, Lessons, &c.'
Washing in the Highlands.
A Butcher's Shop.
COLLECTION OF JOHN COLE STOGDON, M.A., ESQ., 18 CLIFFORD'S INN.
This gentleman, amongst a rich gathering of drawings, caricatures,
and social satires, has secured numerous good examples of prints
executed by Rowlandson, including the rare series of the 'Stages of
Man's Schooling' (1802). We have to instance a spirited drawing by the
caricaturist, which is in the possession of Mr. Stogdon: 'Forbidden
Fruit.'
FIGURE DRAWINGS AFTER THE OLD MASTERS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON, IN THE
COLLECTION OF COLONEL GOULD WESTON, THURLOE SQUARE.
Venus: Carlo Marratti.
Venus: Bouchér.
Nymph Surprised by Satyr: Gerard Lairesse.
Diana and Hunter: Gerard Lairesse.
Diana and Nymphs: Giulio Romano.
Leda and Swan: Giulio Romano.
Venus Arranging her Hair: Andrea del Sarto.
Venus and Cupid: Andrea del Sarto.
Venus and Cupid: Palma Vecchio.
Lucretia: Andrea del Sarto.
Venus and Mars: Pietro de Cortona.
Rape of the Sabines: Polidore.
Leda and Swan: Canache.
Venus and Man Playing Guitar: Titian.
Susanna and Elders: Guercino.
Venus Sleeping--back exposed: Guercino.
Zulieka and Joseph: Domenichino.
Venus and Loves: Domenichino.
The drawings mentioned above, like most of the caricaturist's fluent
renderings of subjects after the Old Masters, are far removed from
mere copies or servile imitations, being, in actual fact, free
adaptations of the works in question, strongly characterised with the
individualities of Rowlandson's style.
Colonel Weston, in addition to this unique series, possesses a
collection of original drawings by the artist, which includes,
among numerous interesting examples of varying importance, one of
Rowlandson's most graceful and finished drawings, worked out with a
taste and delicacy altogether remarkable. The subject is a domestic
scene, introducing two charming figures (likenesses in all probability)
executed after the style of the portrait of Morland (mentioned in the
first part of this work, now in the Print Room, British Museum, see p.
412), and evidently executed at the same period.
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON. (COLLECTION IN THE POSSESSION
OF JOHN WEST, ESQ., BAYSWATER.)
R. Moser, R.A., Keeper of the Royal Academy. A serious portrait,
boldly executed, both outline and shadows put in with a reed pen,
in the manner of Mortimer. Evidently a sketch made from life when
Rowlandson was an Academy student.
Colonel O'Kelly taking a Private Trial previous to his Making a
Match. (See Racing Series, 1789: The Betting Post, The Mount, &c.)
Race-horses arriving for a Spring Meeting.
The Gambler Going to Bed. (See pp. 208-210).
Congregation Leaving a Chapel. 1820. A large drawing, crowded with
figures. (See collection belonging to William Bates, Esq.)
'As You Like It,' act ii. scene 7: Fifth Age. (Engraved.) The
collection of Shakspearean subjects drawn by Rowlandson to illustrate
the 'Seven Ages of Man' is in the possession of General Sir Henry de
Bathe, Wood End, near Chichester.
An Anatomical Lecture.
The Morning Toilette. A fashionable beauty holding a _levée_ under
the hands of her perruquier.
The Morning Meal.--
The cup that cheers but not inebriates.