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)
ll imagined. Some are prostrate with terror ; one man is down on his knees and cannot move for fright ; ladies are fainting; husbands are manfully endeavouring to carry oft' their wives out of the way of the terrible visitor, and everything is turned topsy- turvy. 1 810. Sports of a Country Fair. —… … SPITFIRES. The entrance is from a balcony reached by a flight of steps, and the frightened spectators are pouring out of the building, which is burning furiously, and throw- ing themselves pellmell down the steps, at the bottom of which they are spraw- ling, kicking, and plunging in fright and…
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · English wit and humor, Pictorial
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