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
'"HONOURED SIR,--By advice from Mr. Gambado of your horse's complaint,
I have sent you a powder so strong, that, if administered night and
morning in his corn, I will be bold to say, no horse in England shall
ever suffer from the like again after Thursday next. Shall be very
thankful for your Honour's custom in the same way in future, and your
lady's too, if agreeable; being, Honoured Sir,
'"Your servant to command,
'"JO. WOOD".
'_To_ GEOFFREY GAMBADO, ESQ.
'"KIND SIR,--I have an extraordinary story to tell you, that happened
to me t'other day, as I was bringing two pair of stays to Miss
Philpot's, at Kentishtown. I lives, sir, at Finchley; and a-top of
Highgate Hill, my horse makes a kind of slip with his hind feet, do you
see, for it was for all the world like a bit of ice the whole road. I'd
nothing for't but to hold fast round his neck, and to squeeze me elbows
in to keep the stays safe; and egad, off we set, and never stopt till
I got to the bottom. He never moved a leg didn't my horse, but slided
promiscuously, as I may say, till he oversate somebody on the road; I
was too flurrisome to see who: and the first body I see'd it was a poor
man axing charity in a hat. My horse must have had a rare bit of bone
in his back, and I sit him as stiff as buckram.
'"Your honor's obedient servant,
'"JAMES JUMPS."'
_The Art of ingeniously tormenting_, with five plates by Woodward and
Rowlandson (Tegg).
_The Caricature Magazine, or Hudibrastic Mirror_, in numbers.
THE
CARICATURE MAGAZINE
OR
MIRROR OF MIRTH
BEING A COLLECTION OF HUMOROUS
AND SATIRICAL CARICATURES
DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED
BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON, ESQ.
LONDON
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS TEGG
111 CHEAPSIDE
[Illustration: TITLE TO 'CARICATURE MAGAZINE.']
_The Beauties of Tom Brown_, embellished with engravings by Rowlandson,
one vol.
1808. _Chesterfield Travestie, or School for Modern Manners_,
embellished with ten caricatures. Engraved by Rowlandson from original
drawings by Woodward. Published by Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside, 1808.
Republished under the title of _Chesterfield Burlesque_, 1811.
_Mottoes._
The better sort should have before 'em
A grace, a manner, a decorum.--BUTLER.
O tempora! O mores!--JUVENAL.
The times are out of joint, O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set them right.-SHAKESPEARE.
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