English artist and caricaturist (1757–1827)

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From Hogarth to Rowlandson : medicine in art in eighteenth-century Britain / Fiona Haslam.

Rowlandson the caricaturist.

Thomas Rowlandson's medical cartoons / by Aubrey Noakes.

Medicine and Caricature / The Wellcome Trust.

Rowlandson the caricaturist : a selection from his works, with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries / by Joseph Grego ; with about four hundred illustrations.

Transplanting of teeth.

Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.

The dance of death: the prisoner discharged. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

The dance of death: the battle. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

The dance of death: the glutton. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

The dance of death: the virago. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

The dance of death: the careless and the careful. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.

An obese man wooing a tall lean woman outside a mausoleum; representing dropsy and consumption. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.

A couple of country folk consulting an aged doctor; a servant smiles menacingly in the doorway. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.

The Walcheren inquiry into the misconduct of the Army Medical Board of three, resulting in its abolition. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson. 1810.

An obese bald-headed old man seated in an armchair while a hairdresser pours macassar oil from a bottle on to his scalp. Etching after T. Rowlandson, ca. 1814.

The dance of death: the schoolmaster. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

A man and a young woman embrace each other: they are are watched by a girl and a dog standing at the door. Etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1815.

A physician with a garland of bottles, pill boxes and a clyster-pipe. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.

The dance of death: skaters. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

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Thomas Rowlandson

Images from the collections

Images by Thomas Rowlandson

Works from the collections

The dance of death: the schoolmaster. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

A man and a young woman embrace each other: they are are watched by a girl and a dog standing at the door. Etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1815.

A physician with a garland of bottles, pill boxes and a clyster-pipe. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.

The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.

The dance of death: skaters. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

Frequent collaborators

Thomas Rowlandson

Images from the collections

Images by Thomas Rowlandson

Works from the collections

The dance of death: the schoolmaster. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

A man and a young woman embrace each other: they are are watched by a girl and a dog standing at the door. Etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1815.

A physician with a garland of bottles, pill boxes and a clyster-pipe. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.

The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.

The dance of death: skaters. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

Frequent collaborators

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