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ROWLANDSON THE CARICATURIST _SECOND VOLUME_ LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO, NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET 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 AUTHOR OF 'JAMES GILLRAY, THE CARICATURIST; HIS LIFE, WORKS, AND TIMES' [Illustration] _WITH ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS_ IN TWO VOLUMES--VOL. II. London CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY 1880 [_The right of translation is reserved_] CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. (1800-1825.) 1800. PAGE 'Le Brun Travestied, or Caricatures of the Passions'--Dr. Botherum the Mountebank--Humbugging--Hocus-pocus, or Searching for the Philosopher's Stone--Hogarthian Novelist--Britannia's Protection, or Loyalty Triumphant--A Silly--A Sulky--Beef à la Mode--Collar'd Pork--The Pleasures of Margate--Summer Amusements, or a Game at Bowls--Cockney Outings--Beauties of Sterne: 'The Sentimental Journey'--Series of 'Attributes'--'Country Characters'--'Matrimonial Comforts'--Preparations for the Academy; Old Nollekens and his Venus--'Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales in the year 1797' 1 1801. A Money Scrivener--A Counsellor--The Union--A Jew Broker--The Brilliants--Undertakers Regaling--Symptoms of Sanctity--Single Combat in Moorfields, or Magnanimous Paul O! Challenging All O!--The Emperor Paul of Russia, a Mad Autocrat--Series of 'Prayers' and 'Journals'--The Union Head-dress--An Old Member on his Way to the House of Commons--Minor works--Subjects after the designs of G. M. Woodward 22 1802. Series of 'Journals'--Special Pleaders--La Fille mal Gardé, or Jack in the Box--A Lady in Limbo, or Jew Bail Rejected--Slyboots--A Snip in a Rage--The Corporal in Good Quarters--Sorrow's Dry, or a Cure for the Heart-ache--Hunt the Slipper; Picnic Revels--Who's Mistress Now?--'Compendious Treatise on Modern Education'--'Bardic Museum' 35 1803. A Catamaran--Billiards--A Diver--John Bull Listening to the Quarrels of State Affairs--Flags of Truth and Lies--Minor subjects 42 1804. A French Ordinary--Volunteering--The Imperial Coronation--Theatrical Leapfrog--Melpomene in the Dumps--Death of Madame République--A New French Phantasmagoria--The Eight Stages of Man's Schooling--Letter from the Caricaturist to Heath, the engraver 44 1805. Quarterly Duns, or Clamorous Tax-gatherers--The famous Coalheaver, Black Charley--The Modern Hercules Cleansing the Augean Stable--A Scotch Sarcophagus--John Bull's Turnpike Gate--The Scotch Ostrich Seeking Cover--Recovery of a Dormant Title--Antiquarians à la Grecque--John Bull at the Italian Opera--Napoleon Buonaparte in a Fever on Receiving the Extraordinary Gazette of Nelson's Victory over the Combined Fleets--A Boarding School--Illustrations to Fielding's 'Tom Jones'--Illustrations to Smollett's 'Peregrine Pickle'--Views in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, &c. 49 1806. 'The Sorrows of Werter'--A Cake in Danger--Falstaff and his Followers Vindicating the Property Tax--A Maiden Aunt Smelling Fire--Recruiting on a Broad-Bottom'd Principle--Daniel Lambert, the Wonderful Great Pumpkin of Little Britain--A Diving Machine on a New Construction--The Acquittal--Experiments at Dover, or Master Charley's Magic Lantern--Butterfly-Hunting--Anything will do for an Officer--Interior of St. Brewer's Church--A Prize Fight 57 1807. Miseries of London: A Street Blockade--The Captain's Account-current of Charge and Discharge--At Home and Abroad--Abroad and at Home--Mrs. Showell and Gen. Guise's Collection of Pictures at Oxford--The Enraged Vicar--All the Talents--A Henpeck'd Husband--John Rosedale, Mariner, Exhibitor at the Hall of Greenwich Hospital--The Pilgrims and the Peas--Song Headings--Monastic Fare--The Holy Friar--'I Smell a Rat,' or a Rogue in Grain--The Old Man of the Sea and Sindbad the Sailor--A White Sergeant giving the Word of Command--Miseries Personal--More Scotchmen, or Johnny Maccree Opening his New Budget--A View on the Banks of the Thames--The Double Disaster, or the New Cure for Love--Miseries of the Country--A Mistake at Newmarket, or Sport and Piety--Englishman at Paris--Symptoms of Restiveness--A Calf's Pluck--Rusty Bacon--A Tour to the Lakes--Thomas Simmons, the Murderer--Directions to Footmen--John Bull Making Observations on the Coast--The Dog and the Devil--More Miseries--Illustrations to 'The Pleasures of Human Life' 64 1808. Scenes at Brighton--Miseries of High Life--The Green Dragon--Soldiers on a March--The Consultation, or Last Hope--Volunteer Wit--The Anatomy of Melancholy--The Mother's Hope--The Sweet Little Girl that I Love--Odd Fellows from Downing Street Complaining to John Bull--A Snug Cabin, or Port Admiral--Accommodation--The Welsh Sailor's Mistake--Wonderfully Mended--Breaking Cover--Get Money--Doctor Gallipot Placing his Fortune at the Feet of his Mistress--Rum Characters in a Shrubbery--ROWLANDSON'S CARICATURES AGAINST BUONAPARTE: The Corsican Tiger; Billingsgate at Bayonne; The Corsican Spider in his Web; The Corsican Nurse Soothing the Infants of Spain; The Beast as Described in Revelations; From the Desk to the Throne; King Joe's Retreat from Madrid; King Joe on his Spanish Donkey; A Spanish Passport to France; The Political Butcher; The Fox and the Grapes; Prophecy Explained; Napoleon the Little in a Rage with his Great French Eagle; A Hard Passage, or Boney Playing Base on the Continent; King Joe and Co. making the most of their time previous to quitting Madrid; Nap and his Partner Joe; Nap and his Friends in their Glory; John Bull arming the Spaniards; Junot disgorging his Booty; The Progress of the Emperor Napoleon--Illustrations to 'An Academy for Grown Horsemen' and 'Annals of Horsemanship,' communicated by Geoffrey Gambado, Esq.--'The Caricature Magazine, or Hudibrastic Mirror'--'Chesterfield Travestie, or School for Modern Manners'--Behaviour at Table--'A Lecture on Heads,' by G. A. Stevens--Plates to 'The Miseries of Human Life'--'The Microcosm of London, or London in Miniature'--'An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting' 84 1809. The Head of the Family in Good Humour--The Old Woman's Complaint, or the Greek Alphabet--Launching a Frigate--A Mad Dog in a Coffee House--Disappointed Epicures--A Mad Dog in a Dining Room--The Comforts of Matrimony--The Miseries of Wedlock--'Oh! you're a Devil. Get along, do!' ROWLANDSON'S CARICATURES UPON THE DELICATE INVESTIGATION, OR THE CLARKE SCANDAL: Particulars of the Case; The Parliamentary Examination; The Principal Personages Concerned; Mrs. Clarke's _Memoirs_; 'The Rival Princes'; 'Tegg's Complete Collection of Caricatures relative to Mrs. Clarke, and the Circumstances arising from the Investigation of the Conduct of His Royal Highness the Duke of York before the House of Commons, 1809'; Dissolution of Parliament, or the Industrious Mrs. Clarke Winding up her Accounts; Mrs. Clarke's Levee; Days of Prosperity in Gloucester Place; All for Love: a Scene at Weymouth; An Unexpected Meeting; The Bishop and his Clarke; A Pilgrimage from Surrey to Gloucester Place; The York Magician; A Parliamentary Toast; Chelsea Parade; The Road to Preferment; The York March; The Triumvirate of Gloucester Place; A Scene from the Tragedy of 'Cato'; Yorkshire Hieroglyphics, pl. 182; The Burning Shame; The Statue to be Disposed of; A General Discharge; The Champion of Oakhampton; The Parson and the Clarke; Samson Asleep on the Lap of Delilah; The Resignation; The Prodigal Son; Mrs. Clarke's Last Effort; The York Dilly; Doctor O'Meara's Return to his Family; Mrs. Clarke's Farewell to her Audience; Original Plan for a Popular Monument to be Erected in Gloucester Place; A York Address to the Whale; The Flower of the City; The Modern Babel; The Sick Lion and the Asses; Burning the Books; A Piece-Offering; The Quaker and the Clarke; John Bull and the Genius of Corruption--Boney's Broken Bridge--Hell Broke Loose--The Tables are Turned--More of the Clarke--The Plot Thickens--Amusement for the Recess--The Bill of Wright's--Wonders, Wonders, Wonders!--The Rising Sun, or a View of the Continent--The Pope's Excommunication of Buonaparte--The Walcheren Expedition--Song by Commodore Curtis--A Design for a Monument to be Erected in Commemoration of the Glorious and Never-to-be-forgotten Grand Expedition, so ably planned and executed in the year 1809--General Cheathem's Marvellous Return from his Exhibition of Fireworks--Plan for a General Reform--This is the House that Jack Built--A Lump of Impertinence--A Lump of Innocence--Preparations for the Jubilee, or Theatricals Extraordinary--A Bill of Fare for Bond Street Epicures--The Boxes--A Peep at the Gas Lights in Pall Mall--Joint Stock Street--The 'Bull and Mouth'--A Glee--Rowlandson's 'Sketches from Nature'--Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'--Butler's 'Hudibras'--'Surprising Adventures of the Renowned Baron Munchausen'--'The Beauties of Sterne'--'Poetical Magazine'--'The Schoolmaster's Tour' (Dr. Syntax)--The Mansion House Monitor--'Annals of Sporting,' by Calib Quizzem--'Trial of the Duke of York'--'Advice to Sportsmen' from the notes of Marmaduke Markwell--'The Pleasures of Human Life,' by Hilari Benevolus & Co.--Illustrations to Smollett's Miscellaneous Works--'Beauties of Tom Brown'--Views in Cornwall, &c.--'Scandal; Investigation of the Charges brought against H.R.H. the Duke of York, by G. L. Wardle, Esq., M.P. for Devon, with the evidence and remarks of the Members' 130 1810. Winding up the Medical Report of the Walcheren Expedition--Libel-Hunters on the Look-out, or Daily Examiners of the Liberty of the Press--A New Tap Wanted--The Boroughmongers Strangled in the Tower--Views of the Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge--A Bait for Kiddies on the North Road--Kissing for Love--Easterly Winds--Three Weeks after Marriage, or the Great Little Emperor Playing at Bo-peep--A Bonnet Shop--Peter Plumb's Diary--A Table d'Hôte, or French Ordinary in Paris--Paris Diligence--Boxing Match between Dutch Sam and Medley--Smuggling Out, or Starting for Gretna Green--Smuggling In, or a College Trick--Procession of the Cod Company from St. Giles's to Billingsgate--Rigging out a Smuggler--Dramatic Demireps at their Morning Rehearsal--Sports of a Country Fair--Spitfires--An Old Ewe Dressed Lamb Fashion--Dropsy Courting Consumption--Kitchen Stuff--A Hit at Backgammon--Medical Despatch--Bath Races--Doctor Drainbarrel--After Sweet Meat comes Sour Sauce--The Harmonic Society--Sign of the Four Alls--Signs--The Rabbit Merchant--A Sale of English Beauties in the East Indies--A Parody on Milton--Cries of London 182 1811. College Pranks--A Sleepy Congregation--The Gig Shop--Pigeon-Hole--A French Dentist--Bacon-faced Fellows of Brazenose Broke Loose--She Stoops to Conquer--The Anatomist--Sailors on Horseback--Pastime in Portugal--The Last Drop--Boney the Second, or the Little Baboon Created to Devour French Monkeys--A Picture of Misery--Puss in Boots, or General Junot taken by Surprise--Nursing the Spawn of a Tyrant--The Enraged Son of Mars and the Timid Tonsor--Rural Sports: A Cat in a Bowl--A Dog Fight--Touch for Touch--The Bassoon, with a French Horn Accompaniment--Easter Monday--Rural Sports--The Huntsman Rising--The Gamester Going to Bed--Love Laughs at Locksmiths--Masquerading--Accommodation Ladder--Looking at the Comet--Life and Death of the Racehorse--A Milling Match between Cribb and Molineaux--Smock-Racing--A Game at Quoits--How to Show off a well-shaped Leg--Twelfth Night Characters--Cricket Match Extraordinary--Minor Subjects--Six Classes of the Horse--Distillers--Dinners Dressed in the Neatest Manner--A Trip to Gretna Green--Balloon-Hunting--A Belvoir Leap--A Man of Feeling--Bel and the Dragon--A Milk-sop--Royal Academy, Somerset House--Travelling in France--Exhibition Starecase, Somerset House--The Manager's Last Kick--Preparing to Start--Awkward Squads Studying the Graces--Hiring a Servant--Anglers of 1811--Preparing for the Race--Patience in a Punt--A Templar at His Studies--A Barber's Shop--Modern Antiques--'Munchausen at Walcheren'--'Chesterfield Burlesqued' 199 1812. Duke of Cumberland--Lord Petersham--Lord Pomfret--Wet under Foot--Plucking a Spooney--Catching an Elephant--Description of a Boxing Match between Ward and Quirk--A Spanish Cloak--Fast Day--Sea Stores--Land Stores--The Chamber of Genius--Italian Picture-Dealers Humbugging my Lord Anglaise--The Dog Days--A Brace of Blackguards--Racing--Broad Grins--Watermen--A Seaman's Wife's Reckoning--Setting out for Margate--Refinement of Language--Bitter Fare--Raising the Wind--Christmas Gambols--The Successful Fortune-Hunter--Hackney Assembly--The Learned Scotchman--Preaching to some Purpose--A Visit to the Doctor--Puff Paste--Mock Turtle--Off She Goes--A Cat in Pattens--'Petticoat Loose; a Fragmentary Tale of the Castle'--Series of 'Views in Cornwall'--'Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque'--'Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation'--'Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife' 225 1813. Bachelor's Fare, or Bread and Cheese and Kisses--The Last Gasp, or Toadstools Mistaken for Mushrooms--Summer Amusements at Margate--Humours of Houndsditch--Unloading a Waggon--None but the Brave Deserve the Fair--A Doleful Disaster, or Miss Tubby Tatarmin's Wig Caught Fire--The Norwich Bull Feast--A Long Pull, a Strong Pull, and a Pull all together--The Corsican Toad under a Harrow--The Execution of two celebrated Enemies of Old England, and their Dying Speeches, November 5, 1813--A Dutch Nightmare--Plump to the Devil we boldly Kicked both Nap and his Partner Joe--The Corsican Munchausen--Funking the Corsican--The Mock Phoenix--Friends and Foes, up he Goes!--Political Chemists and German Retorts--Napoléon le Grand--Mock Auction, or Boney Selling Stolen Goods--How to Vault into the Saddle--Witches in a Hayloft--The Quakers and the Commissioners of Excise--Doctor Syntax in the Middle of a Political Squabble--A-going! A-going!--Giving up the Ghost--Ghost of my Departed Husband--'Letters from Italy,' by Lewis Engelbach--'Poetical Sketches of Scarborough,' illustrated by Rowlandson from designs by J. Green--'Dr. Syntax's Tour,' republished 253 1814. The Double Humbug--Death and Buonaparte--Transparency exhibited at Ackermann's on the victory of Leipzig--Madame Véry, Restaurateur, Palais Royal, Paris--La Belle Limonadière au Café des Milles Colonnes--Quarter Day, or Clearing the Premises--Kicking up a Breeze, or Barrow-women Basting a Beadle--The Progress of Gallantry--A Tailor's Wedding--Head Runner of Runaways from Leipzig Fair--Crimping a Quaker--The Devil's Darling--Blucher the Brave Extorting the Groan of Abdication from the Corsican Bloodhound--Coming in at the Death of the Corsican Fox--Bloody Boney, the Carcase Butcher, left off Trade and Retiring to Scarecrow Island--The Rogue's March--The Affectionate Farewell, or Kick for Kick--A Delicate Finish to a French Usurper--Nap Dreading his Doleful Doom, or his Grand Entry into the Isle of Elba--The Tyrant of the Continent is Fallen; Europe is Free; England Rejoices--Boney Turned Moralist--What I was! what I am! what I ought to be!--Peace and Plenty--Macassar Oil--A Pleasant Way of Making Hay--Portsmouth Point--The Four Seasons of Love--Joanna Southcott, the Prophetess--Buck-Hunting 271 1815. Female Politicians--Breaking up the Blue Stocking Club--Defrauding the Customs--Hodge's Explanation of a Hundred Magistrates--Tailors Drinking the Tunbridge Waters--Flight of Buonaparte from Hell Bay--Hell Hounds Rallying round the Idol of France--Vive le Roi! Vive l'Empereur! Vive le Diable!--Scene in a New Pantomime to be Performed at the Theatre Royal, Paris--The Corsican and his Blood Hounds at the Window of the Tuileries--Ackermann's Transparency on the Victory of Waterloo--Boney's Trial, Sentence, and Dying Speech, or Europe's Injuries Avenged--Ackermann's Transparency on the General Peace, Nov. 27, 1815--The Cockney Hunt--Measuring Substitutes for the Army of Reserve--A Journeyman Tailor--An Eating House--Neighbours--Banditti--Virtue in Danger--Slap Bang Shop--Accidents will Happen--Sympathy--Despatch, or Jack Preparing for Sea--Deadly-Lively--Illustrations to 'The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome'--Illustrations to 'The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan'--Hindoo Incantations--Illustrations to 'Naples and the Campagna Felice,' in a series of letters by Lewis Engelbach--The Letter-Writer--Don Lugi's Ball 289 1816. Exhibition at Bullock's Museum of Buonaparte's Carriage taken at Waterloo--The Attempt to Wash the Blackamoor White--Lady Hamilton--'Relics of a Saint,' by Ferdinand Farquhar--Rowlandson's 'World in Miniature'--Illustrations to 'The English Dance of Death' 309 1817. Illustrations to Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield'--Illustrations to 'The Dance of Life'--'Grotesque Drawing Book,' &c. 356 1818. Wild Irish, or Paddy from Cork, with his Coat Buttoned Behind--Doncaster Fair, or the Industrious Yorkshire Bites--Illustrations to 'The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy' 363 1819. A Rough Sketch of the Times, as delineated by Sir Francis Burdett--'Who Killed Cock Robin?' (chap-book on the Manchester Massacre)--Female Intrepidity (chap-book) 365 1820. Chemical Lectures (Sir Humphrey Davy)--Rowlandson's 'Characteristic Sketches of the Lower Classes'--'The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax' 366 1821. A Smoky House and a Scolding Wife--Tricks of the Turf, or Settling how to Lose a Race--Illustrations to 'Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France'--'Le Don Quichotte Romantique, ou voyage du Docteur Syntaxe' 368 1822. Illustrations to 'The History of Johnny Quæ Genus'--Rowlandson's 'Sketches from Nature'--'Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife'--'Die Reise des Doktor Syntax'--Crimes of the Clergy 371 1823. Not at Home, or the Disappointed Dinner-hunter--An Old Poacher Caught in a Snare--The Chance-seller of the Exchequer putting an Extinguisher on Lotteries--Westmacott's 'Spirit of the Public Journals for 1823'--The Toothache, or Torment and Torture 374 1825. 'Bernard Blackmantle' (C. M. Westmacott), 'Spirit of the Public Journals for the year 1824'--'The English Spy,' by Bernard Blackmantle 377 1831. Posthumous Publication--'The Humourist, a Companion for the Christmas Fireside,' by W. H. Harrison, 'with fifty engravings and numerous vignettes from designs by the late Thomas Rowlandson' 380 _SUMMARIES._ Chronological summary of subjects, social and political, published caricatures, plates, and book illustrations, engraved by or after Thomas Rowlandson, 1774 to 1831 387 Addendum to the chronological summary of Rowlandson's published caricatures 406 _APPENDIX._ ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF REFERENCE UPON ROWLANDSON'S CARICATURES: Catalogue of pictorial satires in the Print Department of the British Museum, from the notes of Edward Hawkins, prepared by Frederic George Stephens 411 'Centuria Librorum Absconditorum (Pisanus Fraxi)' 412 Original drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum 412 In the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle 413 In the collection of water-colour drawings of the English school, Science and Art Department, South Kensington Museum 413 Dyce collection of water-colour drawings of the English school, Science and Art Department, South Kensington Museum 413 Private collections of original drawings by Thomas Rowlandson 415 _INDICES._ Index of names, persons, &c. 435 Index of titles, subjects, published caricatures, illustrations, &c. 440 _ROWLANDSON THE CARICATURIST._ 1800. _January 1, 1800._ _A French Ordinary._ Published by S. W. Fores. (See January 2, 1804.) _January 20-3, 1800._ _Washing Trotters._ Published by Hixon, 355 Exeter Change, Strand.--As the title indicates, an etching of a curious couple engaged in the domestic operation of tubbing. _January 20, 1800._ _Desire_, No. 1. Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp. Published by R. Ackermann.--'Various are the ways this passion might be depicted: in this delineation the subjects chosen are simple--a hungry boy and a plum-pudding.' _January 20, 1800._ _Attention_, No. 2. Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 20, 1800._ _Hatred or Jealousy_, No. 3. Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 20, 1800._ _Admiration with Astonishment_, No. 4. Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 20, 1800._ _Veneration_, No. 5. Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 21, 1800._ _Rapture_, No. 6. Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson.--'What's life without passion, sweet passion of love?' 'Melody produces rapture, as exemplified in the Jew clothesman's rapturous attention to the vocal strains of the ballad-singer and her family.' A street ballad-singer, with a basket of ballads in slips, and surrounded by her family of children, has thrown a wandering Hebrew into a fit of pious ecstasy by the strains of her squalling voice, helped out by the shrill accompaniments supplied by those of her children. _1800._ _Desire_, No. 7. Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson.--'Female attraction is frequently the cause of this passion, as represented in the delineation of the Old Beau and the Sleeping Lady.' A fair young female, fashionably attired, has dropped asleep in an inviting attitude, leaning on a cushion, an old buck, spyglass in hand, is ogling the unconscious beauty. _January 21, 1800._ _Joy with Tranquillity_, No. 8. G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson fec. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 21, 1800._ _Laughter_, No. 9. G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson fec. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 21, 1800._ _Acute Pain_, No. 10. Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp.--'The curious observer of the passions has only to get a careless servant to pour some hot water on his foot, in a case of the gout, and he will soon know the nature of Acute Pain.' _January 21, 1800._ _Acute Pain_ (2nd plate), No. 19. G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson fec. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 21, 1800._ _Simple Bodily Pain_, No. 11. G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson fec. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 21, 1800._ _Sadness_, No. 12. G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson fec. Published by R. Ackermann.--'This passion is represented by an old maid, who is rendered completely miserable by the death of her favourite lapdog.' A 'serious footman' is gravely contemplating the body of a deceased puppy, extended on a velvet cushion, while an antiquated spinster, his mistress, who is smartened up with bows and ribbons, is in the depths of despair. _January 21, 1800._ _Weeping_, No. 13. G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson fec. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 21, 1800._ _Compassion_, No. 14. G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson fec. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 21, 1800._ _Scorn_, No. 15. G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson fec. Published by R. Ackermann.--'This passion is frequently brought forward when a rich old dowager meets a poor relation.' A stout citizeness is pouting her nether lip, and closing her eyes to the pathetic appeals of a miserable-looking female, whose poverty and leanness offer a striking contrast to the portly city dame, with comfortable muff, resplendent in jewellery and brave apparel. _January 21, 1800._ _Horror_, No. 16. G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson fec. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 21, 1800._ _Terror_, No. 17. G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson fec. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 21, 1800._ _Anger_, No. 18. G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson fec. Published by R. Ackermann. _January 21, 1800._ _Despair_, No. 20. G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson fec. Published by R. Ackermann--'A disappointed old maid and a bachelor are selected as proper subjects to represent the passion of despair.' The old maid, who is far from an attractive example of her tribe, is looking venom and acerbity personified. The old bachelor is also of a flinty aspect, his hands are clasped, thumbs pressed together, and head and eyes uplifted in pious abstraction and contemplation. _February 14, 1800._ _Beef à la Mode._ Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. Etched by Rowlandson (companion to _Collar'd Pork_).--A veritable bovine specimen, a fine Alderney, dressed out in the reigning mode. The fore part in female guise, on the head a gigantic hat of the cart-wheel order, straw trimmed and garnished, huge ear-rings, the extensive muslin 'choker,' a miniature of a bull round the cow's neck, ladies' buckled shoes, and ribboned sandles on the fore legs, and maccaroni's hessians and tassels on the hind ones; a lady's shawl thrown over the shoulders, according to the fashionable costume worn at the end of the eighteenth century. _March 6, 1800._ _Dr. Botherum, the Mountebank._--From the bustle and life visible on all sides it would seem that the period is fair-time, when the rustics and agricultural population of the vicinity in general flock into the town, holiday-making. A travelling mountebank has established his theatre in the market place; the person of the ingenious charlatan is decked out in a fine court dress, with bag wig, powder, sword, and laced hat complete, the better to excite the respect of his audience; he is holding forth on the marvellous properties ascribed to the nostrums which he is seeking to palm off on the simple villagers as wonder-working elixirs; while his attendants, Merry Andrew and Jack Pudding, are going through their share of the performance. One branch of the mountebank physician's profession was the drawing of teeth; an unfortunate sufferer is submitting himself to the hands of the empiric's assistant. The rural audience is stolidly contemplating the antics of the party, without being particularly moved by Dr. Botherum's imposing eloquence, these vagabond scamps being frequently clever rogues, blessed with an inexhaustible fund of bewildering oratory, and witty repartee at glib command. Leaving the quack, we find plentiful and suggestive materials to employ the humourist's skilful graver scattered around. In the centre, a scene of jealousy is displayed; the beguilements of a portly butcher are prevailing against the assumed privileges of a slip-shod tailor, who is seemingly tempted to have recourse to his sheers, to cut the amorous entanglement summarily asunder. On the left, the promiscuous and greedy feeding associated with 'fairings,' is going busily forward, and on the opposite side are exhibited all the drolleries which can be got out of a Jew pedlar, his pack, the diversified actions of customers he is trying to tempt with his wares, and the bargains for finery into which the fair and softer sex are vainly trying to beguile the cunning Hebrew on their own accounts. [Illustration: DR. BOTHERUM, THE MOUNTEBANK.] It seems probable that Rowlandson in his print of _Doctor Botherum_ may have had a certain Doctor Bossy in his eye, a German practitioner of considerable skill, who enjoyed a comfortable private practice, said to have been the last of the respectable charlatans who exhibited in the British metropolis. This benevolent empiric, as Angelo informs us, dispensed medicines and practised the healing art, publicly and gratuitously on a stage, his booth being erected weekly in the midst of Covent-Garden Market, where the mountebank, handsomely dressed and wearing a gold-laced cocked hat, arrived in his chariot with a liveried servant behind. According to the old custom, the itinerant quack doctor, with his attendant gang, was as constant a visitor at every market-place as the pedlar with his pack. _March 12, 1800._ _Humbugging, or Raising the Devil._ Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand.--A credulous personage, who, judging from his costume, is in a fair position in life, has called to consult a necromancer. The enchanter has a venerable beard, and a divining rod; according to usage, he has made a circle of skulls, toads, and other inviting objects, in the centre of which, through a stage trap, he is raising the 'very deil,' and has conjured up a pantomimic demon, horned, winged, and grotesquely arranged, holding in one hand a gore-stained dagger, and a goblet of suppositious blood in the other. The knees of the befooled spectator are trembling beneath him; his back is turned to a curtain which conceals a fair enchantress, who is assisting the invocation, and giving a practical turn to the delusion by removing a well-filled pocket-book from the coat-tail of the simple victim. In the background is the traditional whiskered cat, and the folio of cabalistic signs; a stuffed crocodile is suspended from the roof. _March 12, 1800._ _Hocus Pocus, or Searching for the Philosopher's Stone._ Rowlandson del. and sculp. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand.--Companion plate to 'Humbugging, or raising the Devil.' The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long-nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is a crucible; various retorts, alembics, and other paraphernalia of the 'black arts,' are scattered about, as well as a formula for 'changing lead into gold;' although the alchemists at best could only contrive to accomplish the reverse transmutation. Suggestive prints are hung on the walls of this chamber of mystery, such as the portrait of the notorious 'Count Cagliostro, discoverer of the Philosopher's Stone,' and the figure of the spurious 'Bottle Conjurer.' A military officer, in the next apartment, is turning his opportunities to more practical advantage by embracing, with a certain display of ardour, a pretty maiden--who is nothing loth,--the daughter, it appears, of the philosophically minded investigator. _April 1, 1800._ _A Ghost in the Wine Cellar._ Published by T. Rowlandson, 1 James's Street, Adelphi. _April, 1800._ _Caricature Medallions for Screens._ Published by R. Ackermann, Strand. _April 20, 1800._ _Hearts for the year 1800._ Woodward inv., Rowlandson sculp. Published by R. Ackermann, Strand. _May 1, 1800._ _Cash_. Published by R. Ackermann. _May 1, 1800._ _Bills of Exchange._ Published by R. Ackermann. _May 12, 1800._ _Melopoyn haranguing the prisoners in the Fleet. Hogarthian Novelist._ Plate 5. _May 12, 1800._ _Captain Bowling introduced to Narcissa. Hogarthian Novelist._ Plate 6. _May 20, 1800._ _A Skipping Academy._ G. M. Woodward inv., Rowlandson sculp. Published by R. Ackermann, Strand. _June, 1800._ _Sketches at the Oratorio._ G. M. Woodward inv., Rowlandson sculp. _June 4, 1800._ _Pictures of Prejudice._ Designed by Woodward. Etched by Rowlandson. Published by R. Ackermann. _June 4, 1800._ _Britannia's Protection, or Loyalty Triumphant._--George the Third, his face shown in profile, is standing upright and firm; his left arm is resting on the pillar of Fortitude, Britannia's shield is outstretched for his protection, and her spear is striking at the would-be assassin Hadfield, who, wearing a repellant expression, is slinking down before her: his pistol has fallen from his hand; round his neck is a halter, with the end of which a miniature edition of the Evil One is flying off, crying: 'Hadfield, for thy diabolical attempt thou shalt meet with thy reward!' _June 26, 1800._ _A Silly._ Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand.--An ill-favoured old maid, who is evidently a person of fortune, is seated on her sofa between two admirers, a clergyman and a military officer, who are respectively ambitious of the honour of her hand. Her old-maidish tastes are indicated by the nature of her pets; a monkey, seated in the embrasure of the window, is scratching his ear; he is supported on the opposite side by a parrot, which is screaming with the full force of its lungs. _June 26, 1800._ _A Sulky._ Companion Print to _A Silly_. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand.--A fat old curmudgeon, a very porpoise in face, expression, and figure, is tippling and dozing in a semi-maudlin state, in front of the fire-place. His fair companion, an elegant young damsel, is dressed in readiness to make her escape into more agreeable society; she is fuming with impatience, but dares not venture to move for fear of arousing the attention of her besotted jailer. Her situation is more tantalising from the circumstance that the maid-servant has brought in a billet-doux from a handsome youth, her admirer, who, all impatience, is looking over the shoulders of his messenger. _July 25, 1800._ _Collar'd Pork._ Companion to _Beef à la Mode_ (see p. 3). Published by Ackermann.--A long-snouted black pig is decked out in the height of fashion, with ample neck-cloth, frill, wig, eye-glass, white ducks, blue coat with roll collar, brass buttons, his tail twisted up with bows, &c., _à la queue_. He wears Hessian boots, tassels, and spurs on his front legs; pumps with bows, and black silk stockings on his hind legs. _July 25, 1800._ _The Pleasures of Margate_, in four compartments. Published by R. Ackermann. _Morning._--Breakfasting at _Michiner's Grand Hotel_. _Noon._--Dining at _Michiner's Grand Hotel_. _Evening._--A drive on the sands. _Night._--At the bazaars. Raffling for prizes, flirtation, &c. _August 20, 1800._ _Sailors Regaling._ Published by T. Rowlandson, 1 James's Street, Adelphi.