Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works, with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries (1880)
mile, while his tickled audience accorded him the cheapest popularity by crowding in admira- tion round his travesties, turned the wilful artist away from serious application, where no immediate fun was to be secured for either the limner or his following1. Rowlandson's sense of feminine… … portrait-painting with success, and his pictures were duly received by his patrons and well-wishers amongst the omnipotent Forty, and found their place on the walls of the Royal Academy Fxhibition without a break — no barren compliment when it is remembered that his com- peers were Reynolds,…
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · English wit and humor, Pictorial
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