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High Spirits
The absurdities of fashion, the perils of love, political machinations and royal intrigue were the daily subject matter of Thomas Rowlandson, one of the leading caricaturists of Georgian England. Rowlandson was working at a time when English satirical prints were prized by collectors across Europe. A number of the works in the exhibition were purchased by George, Prince of Wales, later Prince Regent and King George IV. Ironically the Prince was often the butt of caricaturists' jokes and sometimes tried to prevent the publication of images that he felt were particularly offensive. Through Rowlandson's drawings and prints, the exhibition examines life at the turn of the 19th century. 0Exhibition: The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, UK (11.2013).
Rowlandson the Caricaturist
In the second volume of this two volume collection, Grego details the biographical history of Thomas Rowlandson during the later part of the artist's life. It was during this period that Rowlandson, mainly as a means to pay bills, published a prolific amount of caricatures. However, he was still hired as an illustrator and produced a number of aquatinted etchings during this period of his life.
Regarding Thomas Rowlandson, 1757-1827
This story of one of the great graphic satirists and watercolour artists of the British School is based upon a mass of new research. Rowlandson kept no diary, wrote few letters, and occurs only infrequently in the memoirs of others. Source material is not abundant. But in more than a decade's research, using church and official records, newspaper reports, contemporary accounts, sales catalogues and consideration of his pictures, the authors shed new light on Rowlandson's family background, his education and art training in London and Paris, his personal and professional associations, his travels in Britain and abroad, and the work itself. Fully illustrated, this contribution to scholarship will appeal to the general reader and specialist alike and is destined to become the standard work on this benchmark British artist.
Thomas Rowlandson
Published to accompany an exhibition on display at Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., Jan. 14-Mar. 13, 2011, and at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Apr. 8-June 12, 2011.
