Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Nationality: British
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Media: Printmaking,Drawing
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Biography:
Thomas Rowlandson was raised by his affluent aunt and uncle because of his textile merchant father’s financial hardships. In 1772, he enrolled in London’s Royal Academy Schools. Two years later, he traveled to Paris. Upon his return, he exhibited at the Royal Academy and won a silver medal in 1777. A year later, he left school in order to set up his own business. His prints were Rococo-like depictions of Georgian English life made mostly in ink and watercolor. Rowlandson inherited a large sum of money in 1789 after the death of his aunt. He lost much of it due to a gambling problem and was in poverty by 1793. Four years later, he began working for publisher Rudolph Ackermann and his fortunes increased. His work was published for most of the twenty remaining years of his life.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Thomas Rowlandson Misers watercolor 1812
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Thomas Rowlandson Hug-Mug-Gin Etching with watercolor 1815
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Thomas Rowlandson How Came You So!!! Etching with watercolor 1815
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Thomas Rowlandson The Overdrive Ox Aquatint 1787
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Thomas Rowlandson Beauties Etching 1792
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Thomas Rowlandson Inn Yard on Fire Aquatint 1791
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Thomas Rowlandson Chesterfield Travestie or School for Fine Manners (London: Thomas Tegg, 1808) book with text only 1808
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Thomas Rowlandson The Social Day Etching with watercolor 1816
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Thomas Rowlandson Coventry watercolor 18th - 19th century
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Thomas Rowlandson Sir John Barleycorn Etching with hand watercolor early 19th century
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Thomas Rowlandson The Nap watercolor 18th - 19th century
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Thomas Rowlandson Vicar Etching with watercolor 1799
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Thomas Rowlandson The Gig Shop Etching with watercolor 1811
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Thomas Rowlandson A Glee Etching with watercolor 1808
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Thomas Rowlandson Fast Day Etching with watercolor 1812
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Thomas Rowlandson A Cat in Pattens Etching with watercolor 1812
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Thomas Rowlandson Fun at the Fair Etching with watercolor 1810
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Thomas Rowlandson A Catamaran Etching with watercolor 1803
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Thomas Rowlandson A Cat in Pattens Etching with watercolor 1803
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Thomas Rowlandson The Glutton Etching with watercolor 1813
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Thomas Rowlandson French Travelling Aquatint 1785
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Thomas Rowlandson Box Lobby Loungers Etching 1786
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Thomas Rowlandson French Travelling Aquatint 1785
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Thomas Rowlandson Doctor Etching with watercolor 1799
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Thomas Rowlandson A Hit at Backgammon Etching with watercolor 1810
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Thomas Rowlandson Transparency Etching with watercolor 1813
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Thomas Rowlandson Nap in Town Etching with watercolor 1785
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Thomas Rowlandson The Resignation Etching with watercolor 1809
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Thomas Rowlandson The Triumverate Etching with watercolor 1809
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Thomas Rowlandson Pretty Well, Thank You Etching with watercolor 1799
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Thomas Rowlandson Snips Etching with watercolor 1815
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Thomas Rowlandson Sympathy Etching with watercolor 1815
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Thomas Rowlandson Masquerading Etching with watercolor 1811
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Thomas Rowlandson The Mistake Etching with watercolor 1809
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Thomas Rowlandson Taste Etching with watercolor 1801
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Thomas Rowlandson Physiognomy Etching with watercolor 1801
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Thomas Rowlandson Volunteer Wit Etching with watercolor 1808
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Thomas Rowlandson Who's Mistress Now? Etching with watercolor 1811
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Thomas Rowlandson Footman Etching with watercolor 1799
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Thomas Rowlandson Steward Etching with watercolor 1799
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Thomas Rowlandson Nap in the Country Etching with watercolor 1785
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Thomas Rowlandson Crimping A Quaker Etching 1814
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Thomas Rowlandson Damn The Barber Etching 1815
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Thomas Rowlandson An Antiquarian Etching with watercolor 1789
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Thomas Rowlandson Anything Will Do for an Officer Etching with watercolor 1789
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Thomas Rowlandson Deadly Lively Etching 1815
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Thomas Rowlandson The Mint Etching with watercolor 1808
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Thomas Rowlandson Comedy Spectators Etching 1787
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Thomas Rowlandson The Anatomist Etching with watercolor 1811
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Thomas Rowlandson Macassar Oil Etching with watercolor 1814
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Thomas Rowlandson Synagogue Etching with watercolor 1808
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Thomas Rowlandson Art of Scaling Etching with watercolor 1785
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Thomas Rowlandson Sorrow's Dry Etching with watercolor 1802
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Thomas Rowlandson The Kill (?) Etching with watercolor 1787
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Thomas Rowlandson A Calculator Etching with watercolor 1799
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Thomas Rowlandson A Vaulter Etching with watercolor 1799
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Thomas Rowlandson A Civilian Etching with watercolor 1799
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Thomas Rowlandson A Whistler !! Etching with watercolor 1799
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Thomas Rowlandson A Sailor's Will Etching with watercolor 1805
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Thomas Rowlandson An Astronomer Etching with watercolor 1799

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (4)
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Wilhelm-Busch-Museum: Thomas Rowlandson - Grace, Gallantry, Grotesque: English Visual Satire from Rococo to Romanticism
The exhibition runs from May 19 through July 29, and a fully illustrated catalogue is available at the museum shop (Schlütersche GmbH, 208 pp., DM 70 incl. shipping in Germany). ...
Tate Liverpool: Mark Wallinger: Credo
Wallinger came to prominence in Britain in the 1980s and has since earned an international reputation. He was nominated for the 1995 Turner Prize and recently completed a new piece of work, Ecce Homo, for Trafalgar Square, ...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
The Changing Garden presents nearly 200 works—prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs—by more than 100 artists. The exhibition includes great names from art history, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Honoré Fr...
Christie's: The Forbes Collection of Victorian Pictures and Works of Art on View at Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh
The sale will also profile rare works by lesser-known artists of the Victoria period as the collection spans the key artists and the themes of the period to offer artworks to suit all levels of collecting. "The Forbes Collection of Victorian...

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