The English painter Thomas Rowlandson became famous for his socially critical caricatures. His erotic, sometimes even pornographic pictures were strongly influenced by the paintings of the French Rococo.
The son of a respected merchant was born in London, where he later studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, followed by several courses of study in Paris. He started with portraits and landscapes, but the etcher James Gillray, as well as Henry William Bunbury inspired him to caricature painting, which finally brought him attention and success, so in 1784 the paintings of Vauxhall Gardens. The publisher Rudolph Ackermann published in his Poetical Magazine a large number of colored aquatint sheets by Rowlandson, which is based on a special process of artistic printmaking that uses surface etching. Books by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smolett, Laurence Sterne or Oliver Goldsmith were illustrated with drawings by Thomas Rowlandson. English journals distributed his caricatures.
Even as vicious as his pictures seemed to be his way of life. He had a great passion for betting and gambling, which repeatedly got him into financial difficulties. Nevertheless he reached the age of 71 years. He died in his birthplace London. Works like The Toss off, poem and illustrations or The Adulturers discovered still find lovers as well as outrage.
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.jpg "The Wonderful Pig, April 12, 1785 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Miller")
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.jpg "The Modern Hercules, Cleansing the Augean Stable by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Nap Buonaparte in a Fever on Receiving the Extraordinary Gazette of Nelson")
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.jpg "Cook by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Churchyard Debate by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Sunset over the Plain of Barbizon by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Interior View of the Sessions House, Old Bailey, with a Court in Session, City of London by Augustus Charles Pugin")
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.jpg "Study for Royal Chapel, Whitehall, in Micocosm of London by Augustus Charles Pugin")
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_-_Vauxhall_Gardens_in_LondenVaux-Hall_(title_on_object)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1358166).jpg "Vauxhall Gardens in London by Robert Pollard (I)")
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.jpg "A Book Auction by Otto Limited")
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.jpg "The Departure by Joseph Constantine Stadler")
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.jpg "Mortimer Street, Marylebone, London by Joseph Constantine Stadler")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1341050).jpg "An Artist Travelling in Wales by Henri Merke")
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.jpg "Old Man Leafing Through a Print Album, Next to Him His Young Wife by T. Smith")
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.jpg "Philanthropic Society Institution Chapel, London Road, Southwark, London by Edward Blackburn")
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.jpg "Study for Whitehall Chapel, from Microcosm of London by Augustus Charles Pugin")
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.jpg "Patriotic Dinner in London, 1813 by R. Reeves")
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.jpg "The Departure, from Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, 1813 by Joseph Constantine Stadler")
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.jpg "The Bull and Mouth by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Vicar & Moses, August 8, 1784 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The True Method of Sitting a Horse, Mathematically Delineated, 1809 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Sports of a Country Fair, October 5, 1810 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Bostonian Electors of L-Shire, 1790 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "One Tree Hill, Greenwich Park by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Light Your Honor, Coach Unhired by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Flags of Truth and Lies by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Prodigal Son by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Plate 8, Outlines of Figures, Landscapes and Cattle for the Use of Learners by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "How to Do Things by Halves by Thomas Rowlandson")
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![Racing [The Start] by Thomas Rowlandson](/kunstwerke/300px/Thomas_Rowlandson_-_Racing_The_Start_January_1_1799_January_1_1799_-_(MeisterDrucke-1152510).jpg "Racing [The Start] by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Street Scene: Vendor of Brushes by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Title Page, The Caricature Magazine by G. M. Woodward, Vol. 4, 1809 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Sir Whisky Whiffle, April 1808 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Lloyd")
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![Rural Sports, Smock Racing, [October 1, 1811], Reprint by Thomas Rowlandson](/kunstwerke/300px/Thomas_Rowlandson_-_Rural_Sports_Smock_Racing_October_1_1811_reprint_October_1_1811_reprint_-_(MeisterDrucke-1152470).jpg "Rural Sports, Smock Racing, [October 1, 1811], Reprint by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "High Fun for John Bull, or the Republicans Put to their Last Shift, November 12, 1798 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Entertainment for Man and Horse, October 25, 1788 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "A Theatrical Candidate, 1797 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "St. Valentine")
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.jpg "The Fall of Dagon - Or Rare News for Leadenhall Street by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "What")
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.jpg "Harbor scene with the tide out, and beached boats by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "More of the Clarke or Fresh Accusations by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "A Cart Race by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Explanation of the Arms of Napoleon Bonaparte, April 1814 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Sadlers Flying Artillery, September 3, 1798 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Paris Diligence, 1810 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Accomodation Ladder, September 1, 1811 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Traffic, 1791 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Tithe Pig, January 1, 1790 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Brunswick Dock, Blackwall, London, 1806 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Rivals, July 14, 1807 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "A Long Pull A Strong Pull and a Pull Altogether, November 25, 1813 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Dinners Drest in the Neatest Manner, October 1811 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Doncaster Fair or the Industrious Yorkshirebites, 1808-18 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Expedition, or Military Fly, May 16, 1798 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Modish and Prudish, December 1, 1791 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Master Jacky by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Madame Very Restauranteur, Palais Royal Paris and La Belle Liminaudiere at the Cafe De Mille by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Six Classes of the Noble and Useful Animal a Horse by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Anatomist by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Puzzle for the Dog, The Puzzle for the Horse, The Puzzle for Turk, Frenchman, or Chris by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "A Tailors Wedding by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Holy Friar by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Plate 11, Outlines of Figures, Landscapes and Cattle...for the Use of Learners by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Plate 22, from World in Miniature by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Corsican Munchausen - Humming the Lads of Paris, December 4, 1813 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Manager")
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.jpg "The Post House by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "A Rare Acquisition to the Royal Menagerie, July 28, 1815 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Glorious Defeat of the Dutch Navy, by Admirals Lord Duncan and... by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Quae Genus Discovers His Father, from The History of Johnny Quae Genus by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Plate 4, Outlines of Figures, Landscapes and Cattle...for the Use of Learners by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Publican")
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.jpg "The York Magician Transforming a Foot-Boy to a Captain by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Dr. Syntax Reading His Tour in the Kitchen of the Dun Cow by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Ale-House Door, from World in Miniature, 1816 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Christopher Crabtree in the Suds: Dear, dear what can the matter be by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "At the Tomb of Laura, from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Stage. George Primrose as Horatio, from The Vicar of Wakefield by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Guard, September 1, 1798 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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![Betting [The Betting Post], January 1, 1799 by Thomas Rowlandson](/kunstwerke/300px/Thomas_Rowlandson_-_Betting_The_Betting_Post_January_1_1799_January_1_1799_-_(MeisterDrucke-1152181).jpg "Betting [The Betting Post], January 1, 1799 by Thomas Rowlandson")
![Betting [The Betting Post], January 1, 1799 by Thomas Rowlandson](/kunstwerke/400w/Thomas_Rowlandson_-_Betting_The_Betting_Post_January_1_1799_January_1_1799_-_(MeisterDrucke-1152181).jpg)
.jpg "Junot Disgorging His Booty, October 17, 1808 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "River Scene with Windmill from Plate 9, Outlines of Figures, Landscapes and C..., January 20, 1791 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Good Night, November 1, 1799 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Hocus Pocus, or Searching for the Philosopher")
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.jpg "Cits Airing Themselves on a Sunday by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Frontispiece, from A Lecture on Heads by George Alexander Stevens, April 1808 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Dutchman, April 1808 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Opinions on The Divorce Bill!!, June 2, 1800 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Rural Sports, A Milling Match, September 29, 1811 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "A Man of Fashion")
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.jpg "Killing with Kindness, October 1, 1799 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Vicar, September 10, 1799 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "The Comet, 1811 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "Humbugging, or Raising the Devil, March 12, 1800 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "A Lamentable Case of a Jury-Man, March 10, 1815 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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.jpg "French Barracks, August 12, 1791 by Thomas Rowlandson")
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