Thomas Rowlandson was one of the greatest satirists and cartoonists from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The scene is nicely captured in
Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Charles Pugin's illustration of the Lombard Street Sorting Office, made for Rudolph Ackermann's collection of colour plates in The Microcosm of London (1808-10; Fig.
Caption: A caricature by
Thomas Rowlandson from November 1807 shows John Bull (representing England) looking on as a comet-entrained Napoleon ascends from the shore of France toward King George III.
In England, William Hogarth,
Thomas Rowlandson, and James Gillray were prominent in the development of the genre.
Nevertheless, Ensor was in fact quite open about his English roots and the heritage of his work, citing the British satirical artists William Hogarth and
Thomas Rowlandson as influences and thus linking a very British, narrative-based social criticism with the more anarchic and symbolic visuality that became central to his developed style.
Gone are the halcyon days of Der Sturmer and
Thomas Rowlandson, whose pens were dipped in the type of spite that gives the world creative and original portraits such as these.
The seven in question were Alexander Barrie, James Chalmers, Jack Huggins, Sandy McAllister, Albert Milton, Leigh Richmond Roose and
Thomas Rowlandson. Percy Saunders was the player who perished in World War Two.
Left, Francis Jukes and Robert Pollard after
Thomas Rowlandson, Vaux-Hall, hand-coloured etching and aquatint, 1785.
Kemble had to look at sixteen images of himself during the 1809 riots alone--images that made grotesque fun of his angular face with its hook-nose--Harris was targeted only once during his managerial career, in
Thomas Rowlandson's Melpomene in the Dumps; or, Child's Play Defended by Theatrical Monarchs (Fig.
He himself fits neatly into the sequential procession of communicators such as
Thomas Rowlandson the cartoonist and Thomas Toft the potter (both exhibited at the show) and, in this exhibition, he cannot fail to impress with his creative energy and his coordinating skills in which the incoherent (when focussed) like a beam of light, becomes coherent and able to communicate across the generations.
Regarding
Thomas Rowlandson 1757-1827: His Life, Art & Acquaintance.