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)
HIS WORKS AND TIMES. 273 Cafe des Mille Colonnes — 1 Dance of Life! This sober verse, this tranquil strain, Were it to strive, would strive in vain That in its couplets should be shown The Cafe of the Mille Colonnes. The pencil gives a better ken Of its fair Queen — for, ah, no pen Can paint her… … MADAME VERY. By whose enliv'ning, vivid touch, To which this volume owes so much, The lady's splendour will survive When all her graces cease to live, And the proud mirrors shall no more Reflect her beauties ten times o'er ; Or when another takes her chair, Not half so fat, if half as fair. An…
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · English wit and humor, Pictorial
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