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Thomas Rowlandson (
July 14, 1756 – April 22, 1827) was an England
caricaturist.
He was born in
Old Jewry, in the City of London, the son of a tradesman or city merchant. On leaving school he became a student at the
Royal Academy. At the age of sixteen, he lived and studied for a time in
Paris, France, and he later made frequent tours to the Europe, enriching his
Career portfolios with numerous jottings of life and character. In 1775 he exhibited a drawing of
Delilah visiting Samson in Prison, and in the following years he was represented by various portraits and landscapes. He was spoken of as a promising student; and had he continued his early application he would have made his mark as a painter. But by the death of his aunt, a French lady, he inherited £7,000, plunged into the dissipations of the town and was known to sit at the gaming-table for thirty-six hours at a stretch.In time poverty overtook him; and the friendship and example of James Gillray and
Henry William Bunbury seem to have suggested
caricature as a means of filling an empty purse. His drawing of Vauxhall, shown in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784, had been engraved by Pollard, and the print was a success. Rowlandson was largely employed by Rudolph Ackermann, the art publisher, who in 1809--issued in his
Poetical Magazine The Schoolmaster’s Tour--a series of plates with illustrative verses by Dr. William Combe. They were the most popular of the artist’s works. Again engraved by Rowlandson himself in 1812, and issued under the title of the
Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, they had attained a fifth edition by 1813, and were followed in 1820 by
Dr Syntax in Search of Consolation, and in 1821 by the
Third Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of a Wife.He also produced a body of erotic prints and woodcuts, many of which would be considered
pornographic today.
The same collaboration of designer, author and publisher appeared in the English
Dance of Death, issued in 1814-16, one of the most admirable of Rowlandson’s series, and in the
Dance of Life, 1822. Rowlandson also illustrated
Tobias Smollett,
Oliver Goldsmith and Laurence Sterne, and his designs will be found in
The Spirit of the Public Journals (1825),
The English Spy (1825), and
The Humourist (1831). He died in London, after a prolonged illness, on 22 April 1827.
Rowlandson’s designs were usually done in outline with the reed-pen, and delicately washed with colour. They were then
etching by the artist on the copper, and afterwards aquatinted --usually by a professional
engraver, the impressions being finally coloured by hand. As a designer he was characterized by the utmost facility and ease of
draughtsmanship, and the quality of his art suffered from this haste and over-production. He dealt less frequently with politics than his fierce contemporary, Gillray, but commonly touching, in a rather gentle spirit, the various aspects and incidents of social life. His most artistic work is to be found among the more careful drawings of his earlier period; but even among the exaggerated caricature of his later time we find hints that this master of the humorous might have attained to the beautiful had he so willed.His work included a personification of the
United Kingdom named
John Bull who was developed from about 1790 in conjunction with other British satirical artists such as Gillray and
George Cruikshank.
Sources
- British Museum, London
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Lewis Walpole Collection Yale
- Chris Beetles
- University of Liege
Thomas Rowlandson (July 14,
1756 –
April 22, 1827) was an
England caricaturist.
He was born in Old Jewry, in the
City of London, the son of a tradesman or city merchant. On leaving school he became a student at the Royal Academy. At the age of sixteen, he lived and studied for a time in
Paris, France, and he later made frequent tours to the Europe, enriching his
Career portfolios with numerous jottings of life and character. In 1775 he exhibited a drawing of
Delilah visiting Samson in Prison, and in the following years he was represented by various portraits and landscapes. He was spoken of as a promising student; and had he continued his early application he would have made his mark as a painter. But by the death of his aunt, a French lady, he inherited £7,000, plunged into the dissipations of the town and was known to sit at the gaming-table for thirty-six hours at a stretch.In time poverty overtook him; and the friendship and example of
James Gillray and Henry William Bunbury seem to have suggested
caricature as a means of filling an empty purse. His drawing of Vauxhall, shown in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784, had been engraved by Pollard, and the print was a success. Rowlandson was largely employed by Rudolph Ackermann, the art publisher, who in 1809--issued in his
Poetical Magazine The Schoolmaster’s Tour--a series of plates with illustrative verses by Dr.
William Combe. They were the most popular of the artist’s works. Again engraved by Rowlandson himself in 1812, and issued under the title of the
Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, they had attained a fifth edition by 1813, and were followed in 1820 by
Dr Syntax in Search of Consolation, and in 1821 by the
Third Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of a Wife.He also produced a body of erotic prints and woodcuts, many of which would be considered pornographic today.
The same collaboration of designer, author and publisher appeared in the English
Dance of Death, issued in 1814-16, one of the most admirable of Rowlandson’s series, and in the
Dance of Life, 1822. Rowlandson also illustrated Tobias Smollett, Oliver Goldsmith and Laurence Sterne, and his designs will be found in
The Spirit of the Public Journals (1825),
The English Spy (1825), and
The Humourist (1831). He died in London, after a prolonged illness, on 22 April 1827.
Rowlandson’s designs were usually done in outline with the reed-pen, and delicately washed with colour. They were then etching by the artist on the copper, and afterwards
aquatinted --usually by a professional engraver, the impressions being finally coloured by hand. As a designer he was characterized by the utmost facility and ease of draughtsmanship, and the quality of his art suffered from this haste and over-production. He dealt less frequently with politics than his fierce contemporary, Gillray, but commonly touching, in a rather gentle spirit, the various aspects and incidents of social life. His most artistic work is to be found among the more careful drawings of his earlier period; but even among the exaggerated caricature of his later time we find hints that this master of the humorous might have attained to the beautiful had he so willed.His work included a personification of the United Kingdom named John Bull who was developed from about 1790 in conjunction with other British satirical artists such as Gillray and George Cruikshank.
Sources
- British Museum, London
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Lewis Walpole Collection Yale
- Chris Beetles
- University of Liege
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