Amorous Illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson

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Interior, a bed to the left, and an open door to the right.A young girl holds up her shift, the only garment she is wearing, above her navel; Satan is gazing at her in astonishment and fright; both figures are standing; the Devil has horns, wings, and a well developed penis, which is peculiar in form, but not erect. Schiff, Gert, ed. (1969). The Amorous Illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson. United States: The Cythera Press. Mudge, Bradford K. (2000). The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684–1830. New York: Oxford University Press. pp.viii–xii, 111–17, 170, 195, 234–42. The drawing of this composition is good, and the finish, especially of the girl's legs and haunches, fine." [7] This identification of the two subjects is questioned by the British Museum: "General Upton … looks too young to be a general, nor was there a general of this name in the Army List at this date." [214]

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A couple, almost naked, upon a couch, are surprised by a spectre in armour, who brandishes an axe over them; great horror is depicted upon the faces of the guilty pair. The apartment is that of an ancient castle; and to the left is an equestrian statue in armour.

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Exterior. In a cavern by the sea shore, four sailors are disporting themselves with three mermaids; one other man is occupied with the boat which is hauled up on land; while a second man, an oar in hand, is prepared to do battle with a merman who is swimming towards them, his fists brandished in the air in sign of great rage. There is a reproduction of this plate; the size is the same, and the figures are not turned; "it is, however, not so bold and free in execution as the original, is much softened down, and carried out in great part in stipple, which is not the case in the plate etched by Rowlandson; moreover, the hair and faces of the girls differ." [7] Interior of a studio. Two gentlemen are entering abruptly, while an artist is painting from a naked girl on a sofa before him; he holds up his hands as if to entreat them to retire; the girl is crying. Unsigned.

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The nude and erotic drawings of Rowlandson are very numerous. [7] The following is a small selection. This is a most remarkable and original composition. … This composition displays much force, power and weird humour." [57] A nude girl reclines on drapery spread under a tree; a tambourine, which she holds with her right hand, is beneath her head. Two naked children, one kneeling and playing a flute, the other, winged, is dancing and playing on a pipe and a tambourine. The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus] (59.533.566)". Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Phagan, Patricia (2011). Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England. London: Giles. Interior. Fourteen figures in couples round a table; to the right, the president, a glass in his left and a bottle in his right hand, is having connection with a woman astride across his lap, and leaning with her elbows on the table; to the left, a man is vomiting, while a drunken woman is lying upon him and handling his member; the other couples are in various obscene attitudes; all the women have their breasts and the lower parts of their persons bare. Slightly tinted.

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A church-yard. A fat parson is reading the burial service over a grave surrounded by several mourners; while to the left, against a window of the church, a countryman and a lass are copulating in an upright posture; the girl's clothes are up above her posterior, which is very plump, and into which the swain is inserting the middle finger of his right hand. [e] On the sea shore. Two couples are copulating in a boat, which is partly on shore and partly in the water; one of the girls, whose legs, hips, and breasts are bare, rests on the extreme edge of the boat, while the youth, who is enjoying her, appears to be pushing the boat off by the force he is using in having connection with her. To the left, a fat woman, her clothes up above her middle, screams for aid. Thompson, James (1996). "Beauties in the Eyehole: The Voyeur's View of Ingres's Turkish Bath". Picturing the Middle East, A Hundred Years of European Orientalism: A Symposium. New York: Dahesh Museum. pp.69–71.The drawing is not very good, but the composition is pleasing; it forms a pendant to the subject immediately before noticed." [7] The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus] (59.533.1833)". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Drunkenness and debauchery run riot throughout the composition, which is full of movement. The drawing is not bad, but is scarcely more than in outline." [57] Grego, Joseph (1880). Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A Selection from His Works. Vol.2. London: Chatto and Windus. pp.216, 412.

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Interior. A man and woman, seated on a chair, are playing the same harp together; she is seated on his lap, the lower part of her person entirely naked, two feathers in her head; they are copulating. To the left, behind a screen, sits an old woman asleep before the fire with a bottle and glass under her chair. To the right, a window with a small table and a chair before it. On the floor an open music-book. The object of this volume was to reproduce, in form of a book, ten erotic plates by Thomas Rowlandson, which had been issued separately, about 1800; each plate is accompanied by a sheet of letter press from the pen of Hotten, and under each are a title and a few doggerel lines, etched, probably the production of either Rowlandson or Hotten. [7] [378] The plates are of one uniform size, and measure (including the lines under each design) 6¾ by 4½ inches (17.1 x 11.4cm). [7] Image Two nude females are asleep under drapery suspended over the branch of a tree; they are both seated; one rests her head on her right hand, the head of the other reposes on her arms lying on a bank upon which she leans; a naked, chubby child slumbers on the ground beside them. Signed, outside the frame, "Cipriani". The drawing and finish are good, especially of the girl's posteriors—a favourite part with Rowlandson,—and the composition has much life in it." [24] Exterior. A very fat, middle aged woman is leaning against a cannon, her clothes are up above her waist, and a hussar, pipe in mouth, is enjoying her. Several other hussars, their members exposed, stand or sit around.Exterior. A very fat woman, in the act of eloping with a military gentleman, has fallen off the ladder placed against the window, and of which a stale is broken, and lies sprawling on the top of her lover. An old man in night cap puts his head and a lighted candle out of the window. The post-boy, standing by the post-chaise, is laughing at the catastrophe; and a dog is barking. Signed: "Thos. Tegg Rowlandson scul". This is a pendant to the design immediately above noticed. The horse is as extravagantly drawn, and the posture almost as impossible." [7] George, Mary Dorothy (1942). Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Vol.7. Great Britain: British Museum Press.