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
1813 (?). _Giving up the Ghost, or one too many._ Newton del.,
Rowlandson sculp. Published by T. Tegg (292).--Stretched on a poor
pallet, in a bare chamber, lies a wretched sufferer; by his side,
sleeping in an armchair, is a lace-ruffled and powdered doctor, in
whose pocket appears a dose labelled _Final_. An undertaker, in
professional weeds, is coming in at the door, with his crape-bound
mute's wand in his hand, and a coffin strapped on his shoulder. The
ghostly personification of Death, as a skeleton, holding up his
hour-glass, is pointing his dart through the latticed window. Below the
chair of the smug slumbering practitioner appears a paper bearing the
well-known lines:--
I purge, I bleeds, I sweats 'em;
Then, if they die, I lets 'em!
1813. _The Cobbler's Cure for a Scolding Wife._ Published by T. Tegg
(294).
[Illustration: THE COBBLER'S CURE FOR A SCOLDING WIFE.]
1813 (?). _Cracking a Joke._ Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp. Published
by T. Tegg (296).
1813 (?). _The Ghost of my Departed Husband, or whither, my Love, ah!
whither art thou gone?_ Rowlandson sculp.--A grotesque scene in a
churchyard. An old lady is rolling over in consternation amongst the
graves, and with apparently some substantial motive for her alarm; a
fantastic monster, in a red nightcap, has tripped her up, while an
old gentleman, cautiously proceeding with staff and lantern, is very
considerably shocked at the lady's sudden upset.
1813. _Hopes of the Family, or Miss Marrowfat at Home for the
Holidays._ Published by T. Tegg (296).
1813. Engelbach (Lewis). _Letters from Italy_, (_Repository of Arts_,
1809-13). Republished as _Naples and the Campana Felice_. Seventeen
plates by T. Rowlandson. (See 1815.)
1813. _Poetical Sketches of Scarborough._ Text signed 'J. P.' (J. B.
Papworth), text initialled 'W.' (Rev. Francis Wrangham), and anonymous
text written by William Combe. The titlepage runs thus:--'_Poetical
Sketches of Scarborough. Illustrated by twenty-one engravings of
humorous subjects. Coloured from original designs made upon the spot
by J. Green, and etched by T. Rowlandson._ London: Printed for R.
Ackermann, 101 Strand. 1813.'
'Advertisement.--The originals of the plates introduced in this
volume were sketches made as _souvenirs_ of the place during a visit
to Scarborough in the season of 1812. They were not intended for
publication; but being found to interest many persons of taste, several
of whom expressed a desire to possess engravings of them, and some
gentlemen having offered to add metrical illustrations to each, the
present form of publication has been adopted.
'The several authors were not personally acquainted with each other. If
this circumstance, and that of every design having been made previously
to the composition of a single couplet, be considered fair ground of
extenuation for faults, they claim its advantages.'
_Illustrations._
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