Amorous Illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson

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The erotic drawings, some of which were done for the Prince Regent bears witness to Rowlandson's temperament and the temper of the times.

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pages of descriptive text + 64 sepia plates of Rowlandson's drawings + 19 pages of descriptions to plates. An ugly old woman, apparently in feat of the watchman who holds his lantern up before him, has fallen on her back; a ghostlike figure in a pointed cap lies flat on the ground under the old dame’s rump, and appears to be naked.

There is much spirit in this composition, which is very pleasing, and the drawing of the figures is good. A man leans backwards on a kind of couch on wheels, in an almost perpendicular posture, a woman on each side; she on the left side is handling his rigid member with her left hand; she on his right side, with one knee on the ground, pulls towards him a third girl suspended in a swing to which a cord is attached; all four figures are entirely naked, the girl in the swing holds her legs up in the air, and spread wide apart ready for the encounter.

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A youth and a lass are asleep on a sofa, their heads in opposite directions, but their private parts, which are entirely exposed, together; the girl's right leg is over the young man's shoulder. A young man is reclining on his back upon an old fashioned harpsichord, with two thick books supporting his head. 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. The drawing is good, and very bold and effective; the etching is rough but well done; and the whole composition is most striking.An old Jew dressed, and with his hat on, supports himself with his left hand on the back of a chair, whilst with his right he raises the clothes of a young and particularly plump girl. 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. A gouty old man, with spectacles on nose, reclines in a low arm chair, plays the fiddle, and copulates with a girl who stands across him with her back, on which she holds an open music book, turned towards him, her legs and posteriors are bare, and the man's member is visible.

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Two figures; the youth’s member is very large, and unnaturally tapered at the end, a form particularly affected by Rowlandson. The girl with her left hand clasps the old man round the buttocks, and with her right handles his member, which is unnaturally large, and its shape quite typical of Rowlandson's style; the girl is bald about her parts. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Ashbee, Henry Spencer [Pisanus Fraxi] (1885).

Bacchus, kneeling, is having connection with a girl seated under a tree; her legs are over his shoulders, and both are entirely nude and crowned with grapes and vine leaves. A young man with his breeches down sits upon a table, and holds a girl across, and facing him; her feet are upon the same table; with his right hand he clasps her rump, and with his left holds up her clothes above her waist; both have hats on. It is executed chiefly in stipple and aquatint, is much softened, and reversed; the monk’s head is turned round, away from the nuns, and is without the skull cap. Two couples in the act: the one seated on a low chair, the other upon a bed in an alcove, the woman on her knees above the man who is on his back. A pretty servant-girl, on her knees, is inserting a warming pan into a bed, while a young officer kneels behind her, and enjoys her; with his right hand he holds the girl's clothes above her posteriors, which are entirely exposed, and with his left he raises his own shirt.

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The drawing is not good, and the etching is very rough, but the composition is original and striking. A servant girl, attired in her mistress's finery, is admiring herself before a looking-glass in the kitchen, while, through the half-opened door, three other girls are watching, and laughing at her. With Pictures of Good Old English Sports and Pastimes was published by John Camden Hotten in 1845 (1872) as a small quarto containing ten plates and accompanying verses by Rowlandson, who was by then long deceased.May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. From Ackermann's Microcosm of London here is a hand coloured aquatint, Hill was the engraver, Rowlandson and Pugin the designers/artists. A pretty, plump girl, seated in an antique arm chair, her legs stretched wide apart, is holding her clothes up above her navel, her breasts are also bare. 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. Two women, the one old, the other young and pretty, are walking away from a river in which several naked men are bathing; they both however look back over their shoulders at the sight which is evidently attractive to them, and the elder female exclaims: "Oh shame on the Nasty fellows do Sophia tell me when we are past them".