Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2Grego, Joseph
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Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2
Grego, Joseph
English wit and humor, Pictorial; Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Folding plate to face the title.
Votaries of Fashion in the Temple of Folly.
How to walk the Streets.
The Art of Quizzing.
How to keep up a conversation with yourself in the Public Streets.
How to break a shop window with an umbrella.
Behaviour at table.
Notoriety, Singularity, Whimsical.
Gentleman and Mad Author.
'I will allow you twelve shillings a week to be my amanuensis!--What do
you think of that?'
How to look over your husband's hand while at cards, and find fault
with him for losing.
The Nobleman and the little Shopkeeper.
_Chesterfield Travestie, or School for Modern Manners._
1. _How to keep up a conversation with yourself in the public
streets._--An absent-minded orator (passing the Forum Debating
Society), is rehearsing, with lavish declamatory action, his peroration
to the amazement and alarm of the passers-by.
2. _Notoriety._--A buck in a _Jean-de-Brie_. _Singularity._--An
antiquarian oddity in the costume of three-quarters of a century
earlier than the fashion prevailing at the date of the drawing.
_Whimsical._--A dwarf of a woman wearing a cloak down to her toes, and
peaked poke head-dress.
3. _The Art of Quizzing._--Three dandies are promenading arm-in-arm,
and unceremoniously criticising aloud a fine and pretty woman, who is
walking with a 'squab-old-put': 'D----d fine woman, pon honour, but
what a quiz of a fellow she has taken in tow there!'
_August 25, 1808._ _Behaviour at Table._ Woodward del., Rowlandson sc.
Published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside.--The author offers four excellent
directions touching the genteel 'behaviour expected at table,' and if
his injunctions were strictly carried out, there is no question that
his pupils would be accepted in every society as remarkably polished
and well-bred young gentlemen, who had studied Lord Chesterfield's
'advice' to some purpose; perfect ornaments, indeed, to any company
amongst which they might find themselves, and desirable patterns for
imitation.
1. Place your elbows on the table like a Church Warden at a parish
vestry.
2. Stretch your arms across the table to get at what best suits your
appetite.
3. Cough and yawn over the dishes.
4. Loll on two chairs while making use of your toothpick.
[Illustration: BEHAVIOUR AT TABLE.]
1808. _A Lecture on Heads_, by G. A. Stevens,[9] with additions as
delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewis, embellished with twenty-five
humorous characteristic prints, from drawings by George Moutard
Woodward Esq. Engraved by Thomas Rowlandson. Published by T. Tegg.
Frontispiece: Interior of Covent Garden Theatre. C. Lee Lewis
delivering 'A Lecture on Heads' to a crowded audience.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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