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209 results filtered with: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • The dance of death: the pantomime. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
  • A tall lean woman having a discussion with an obese man. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802.
  • The dance of death: the masquerade. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • William Pitt the younger and his ministers as anatomists dissecting the body of the Prince of Wales; representing Pitt's reduction of the powers of the regent. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1788/1789.
  • Doctor Syntax attending a scientific demonstration at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson after W. Combe.
  • Joanna Southcott the prophetess exposing herself to three physicians in order to validate her pregnancy. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1814.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • Court hearing of a dispute in which a doctor refuses to pay his tailor for some unsatisfactory breeches. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A barber's shop in which a fat barber places a wig on an old bald-headed man, an assistant barber who wears spectacles fits a wig on a stout man, in the righthand background a man sits on a chair facing a window, and in the lefthand foreground a dog fouls a wig. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • A man in pain receiving medicines from a housemaid. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
  • The dance of death: the kitchen. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: death by drowning. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Margate, Kent: a woman swimming in the sea; in the background people are looking out to sea from cliffs and a beach. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.
  • The dance of death: the last chase. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • The dance of death: the duel. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria") being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • The dance of death: the Bishop and Death. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A gouty patient in his room full of unproductive doctors. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • Isaac Swainson promoting his 'Velnos syrup', facing an onslaught of rival practitioners advocating mercury. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1789.
  • A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
  • Isaac Swainson promoting his 'Velnos syrup', facing an onslaught of rival practitioners advocating mercury. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1789.
  • N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • A barber's shop. Coloured etching with aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 178-, after W.H. Bunbury.
  • A man in pain receiving medicines from a housemaid. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
  • A blind man walks in Covent Garden, begging for money with hat and placard, stops at two ladies, one who gives him money, meanwhile a young fop helps a lady from a carriage. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, c. 1802.