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Thomas Rowlandson (; 13 July 1757 – 21 April 1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced a wide variety of illustrations for novels, joke books, and topographical works. Like other contemporary pre-Victorian caricaturists like James Gillray, he too depicted characters in bawdy postures and he also produced erotica which was censured by the 1840s. His caricatures included those of people in power such as the Duchess of Devonshire, William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Thomas Rowlandson A Bench of Artists
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Thomas Rowlandson Sir Joseph Banks about to Eat an Alligator (‘The Fish Supper’)
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Thomas Rowlandson A Two O’Clock Ordinary
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Thomas Rowlandson Four Generations
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Thomas Rowlandson The Tables Turned
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Thomas Rowlandson Two O’Clock Ordinary
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Thomas Rowlandson The Lover. Verso: Half Length Portrait of a Pretty Woman
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Who farted?: British comic art
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