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
A sturdy Highlander is putting the finishing stroke to
a discomfited plotting Bonapartist with his bayonet, and summarily
stamping out Imperialist intriguers.
_July 14, 1815._ _Easter Monday, or the Cockney Hunt._--Designed,
etched, and published by T. Rowlandson, 1 James Street, Adelphi. In
clearing a gate, after the hounds, a little antiquated sportsman has
missed his seat and is going over his horse's ears; behind him is a
dashing Diana, who is spurring her horse over the palings of a park in
gallant style.
_November 16, 1815._ _My Ass._ Designed and etched by T. Rowlandson.
Written by Mr. J. Tedir. Published by I. Sidebotham, 96 Strand.--The
adventures of a hawker of vegetables and her faithful donkey, depicted
in a series of six cuts, illustrating the invaluable qualities of the
quadruped. The composition commences thus:--
Who followed me through street and lane,
In spite of hurricane and rain;
While I my daily bread did gain?
My Ass.
The other verses being in the same strain.
1815. _Measuring Substitutes for the Army of Reserve._--In 1815, owing
to the French wars, soldiers were necessarily at a premium; and, from
an advertisement in the justices' room, where the substitutes are being
measured, we learn that the bounty was fixed at 30_l._ per man. Those
great functionaries, a country justice and his clerk, appear seated
in state, to warrant the proceedings. A commanding officer and his
sergeant are labouring prodigiously, for the needs of the service, to
force certain stunted and misshapen rustics, who have been enlisted to
serve their country, up to the military standard. Further relays of
ungainly 'chawbacons' are waiting their turn without.
1815. _A Journeyman Tailor._--A half-clad slave of the thimble is shown
squatting on his board in a squalid hovel; his half-starved 'helper'
is seated by his side; both are pressing garments with hot irons, and
a rough and ragged urchin is heating a further supply of the article
known as 'a tailor's goose' at the grate; while a street hawker, a
blowsy Hibernian, is screaming her wares (cucumbers and cabbages) in
at the doorway. This picture bears some resemblance to a caricature
published by Rowlandson in 1823, under the title _Hot Goose, Cabbage,
and Cucumbers_.
1815. _Neighbours._ Published by T. Tegg (235).--The wooden casements
of two windows, which turn on one post connecting the houses, are
thrown back, and simultaneously a neat-looking young farmer and
a well-favoured young damsel are stooping forward and their lips
meeting in a cheerful salute, to the horror and scandal of two elderly
witnesses, who are expressing their reprobation at the openness of the
proceeding. The young swain at the same moment is trying to hang up a
cage, which appropriately contains a pair of cooing doves.
[Illustration: AN EATING-HOUSE.]
1815 (?). _An Eating-house._
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