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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)

Grego, Joseph, 1843-1908, Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · London, Chatto and Windus · leaf 84

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6S ROWLANDSON THE CARICATURIST. 1807. on the rejection of their favourite measure, Catholic Emancipation, which they were pledged to introduce. The King, and his friends, the remnant of the Pittites, made a desperate stand against this measure, and the consequence of its defeat was the immediate… … ALL THE TALENTS. embodied by Rowlandson's pencil, the combination of heterogeneous elements produced a curious monster : the wig of a learned judge is worn on the head of a spectacled ape, with an episcopal mitre and a Catholic crosier ; a lawyer's bands, a laced coat, and ragged breeches ; wearing…

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · English wit and humor, Pictorial

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