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
79. The Church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.
80. St. Paul's Cathedral.
81. Surrey Institution. Lecture Theatre.
82. Synagogue, Duke's Place, Houndsditch.
83. Tattersall's Horse Repository, Hyde Park Corner.
84. The Temple Church.
85. View of the Tower of London.
86. Horse Armoury, Tower.
87. The Board of Trade, Treasury, Whitehall.
88. Trinity House, Great Tower Hill.
89. Vauxhall Gardens. (The Orchestra.)
90. Church of St. Stephen, Walbrook.
91. The Watch House, St. Mary-le-Bone.
92. West India Docks.
93. Westminster Abbey.
94. Westminster Hall.
95. Chapel Royal, Whitehall.
96. The Workhouse, St. James's Parish.
97. Greenwich Hospital. The Painted Hall.
98. The Hall, Chelsea Hospital.
99. Military College, Chelsea.
100. Covent Garden Theatre.
101. South Sea House. Dividend Day.
102. Excise Office, Broad Street.
103. View of Westminster Hall and Bridge.
104. A View of London and the Thames. Taken opposite the Adelphi.
1808 and 1809. _An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting._
Illustrated with five prints. From designs by G. M. Woodward, Esq.
(author of 'Eccentric Excursions'). Rowlandson, sc. 12mo. London.
Printed for Thomas Tegg.
I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his
hen;
More clamorous than a parrot against rain;
More new-fangled than an ape;
And more giddy in my desires than a monkey.--SHAKESPEARE.
Folding frontispiece.--A Savoyard with a barrel-organ and a troupe
of dancing dogs; a Frenchman with a dancing bear; a showman dragging
about a dromedary, with a monkey perched on its hump, and pulling
the animal's ears. A bird made to fire off a gun, in the rear of a
half-starved individual who is lost in hungry longing outside the
window of an eating-house; while the proprietor is taunting the
famished gazer with a huge round of beef. A cat is torturing a mouse.
A woman is eavesdropping. Another cat is getting a bird out of a cage.
A woman is emptying a vessel over the heads of a crowd gathered round
a tussle. A cat is launched in the air on bladders. A pair of ruffians
are racing on donkeys, and flogging the beasts unmercifully. All these
episodes set forth various phases of the fine art of Tormenting.
1. A old vixen is tormenting a pretty maid, who is in tears: 'Don't
cry, child. You cannot help being handsome; but I assure you I have
often wept from my dreadful apprehensions for you, lest you should come
to walk London streets!'
2. A family scene.
Train up a child in the way it should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
SOLOMON.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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