APPENDIX

ADDENDUM TO THE CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF ROWLANDSON'S CARICATURES.

The Editor has found it necessary to append a supplementary list of subjects which have been brought under his notice too late either to be arranged in the body of the present work, or even to be comprised in the general chronological summary; his attention being directed to these additional caricatures long after he had reluctantly arrived at the conclusion that it was hopeless to expect to render the foregoing classification more complete.

In the Introduction to this review of pictorial satires by Thomas Rowlandson allusions will be found (vol. i. p. 4) to a noteworthy collection of his productions, both social and political, in course of formation by Mr. F. Harvey, of St. James's Street, the result of many years' vigilant activity in securing everything of consequence by the artist which happened to come into the print market, with comparative indifference to cost.

The arrangement of this gathering, already amounting to twenty-three volumes, consisting entirely of excellent examples of the caricaturist's engraved works, has been proceeding coincidently with the preparation of the present volumes, and both selections have been brought as near to completion as is practicable at precisely the same time.

The writer has the satisfaction of realising that the promise referred to in his preface, made by Mr. Harvey many years ago, has been redeemed before it is altogether worthless, as concerns his desire to supply a summary of the caricaturist's published productions as comprehensive as circumstances are likely to permit, to which much importance is attached from a collector's point of view.

It must be acknowledged that the extensive accumulation in the possession of Mr. Harvey has contributed to this result, if at the eleventh hour; in his collection numerous examples of interest are found which have hitherto escaped the Editor's researches. Many of the titles set down in the body of the foregoing Summary and in the Addendum, drawn from the resources placed at his disposal by the kindness of Mr. Harvey, are in all probability perfectly novel to the majority of even experienced 'Rowlandson fanciers.'

No date.A Counsellor's Opinion after he had retired from Practice.1790.Crœsus and Thalia.All Fours. Designed by H. Bunbury. Rowlandson sculp.Nov. 20.Satan, Sin, and Death. W. Hogarth invt. Rowlandson del.Dec. 1.A series of single-figure subjects, designed by Woodward and engraved by Rowlandson.A Smart.A Greenhorn.A Jessamy.A Choice Spirit.A Jemmy.A Buck.An Honest Fellow.A Blood.1791.Mar. 1.The Pursuit. (Chase of a Highwayman by aposséof horsemen.) A large and important subject.Companion to 'The Attack,' published contemporaneously, and described in vol. i. p. 289.Dec. 1.Returning from the Races.1.Selling a Horse.1.Modish—Prudent. (Another version of the pair of female figure subjects engraved 1787. See vol. i. pp. 220–1.)1792.Jan. 1.A series of four large sporting subjects, figures in wooded backgrounds. Painted by George Morland, and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson.Partridge-Shooting.Pleasant-Shooting.Snipe-Shooting.Duck-Shooting. (Originally pub. in 1790.)July 18.The Paviour's Joy. Companion to 'The Chairman's Terror' (vol. i. p. 308).1794.A Field Day in Hyde Park. Aquatinted by T. Malton. A large and important subject, evidently belonging to the same series as 'The English Barracks,' &c. (Aug. 12, 1791). See vol. i. pp. 294–5.1795.Jan. 1.Billingsgate Brutes.1797.Oct. 22.Glorious Defeat of the Dutch Navy, Oct. 10, 1797, by Admirals Lord Duncan and Sir Richard Onslow; with a view, drawn on the spot, of the six Dutch line-of-battle ships captured and brought into Yarmouth. Pub. by T. Rowlandson, 1 James Street, Adelphi.1798.Mar. 16.England Invaded, or Frenchmen Naturalised (Loyal Volunteers). Pub. by I. Harris.Apr. 3.A Return from a Visit. (After H. Bunbury.)May 15.Military Fly. (See 'Loyal Volunteers of London,' June 20, 1799, vol. i. pp. 375–7.)May 18.Rehearsal of a French Invasion, as performed before the Invalids, at the Island of St. Marcou, on the morning of ye 7 of May, 1798. Pub. by R. Ackermann.June 1.Soldiers Attending Divine Service. (The Invasion Panic and Volunteer forces.)Aug. 8.Smuggling In—Smuggling Out. (See 1810.)18.The Miller's Love.Sept. 3.Sadler's Flying Artillery. (See 'Loyal Volunteers of London,' June 20, 1799, vol. i. pp. 375–7.)Oct. 9.Fraternization in Grand Cairo, or the Mad General and his Boney-party likely to become tame Mussulmen. Pub. by R. Ackermann.17.Erin-go-Bray. The Allied Republics of France and Ireland. Pub. by S. W. Fores.Nov. 1.Effects of British Valour on the French Directory. Pub. by R. Ackermann.1799.Jan. 20.A Magic Lantern. Merke sculp.Mar. 1.Cries of London. Pl. 7. Old Clothes. (See 'Cries of London,' vol. i. pp. 354–6.)20.Fast Day. Pub. by T. Rowlandson, 1 James Street, Adelphi.Aug. 1.Change Alley. No. 1. Waddling In. (See 'Waddling Out,' vol. i. p. 366.)Horse Accomplishments.—A Vaulter. (See 'Horse Accomplishments,' vol. i. p. 366.)30.Country Characters. Republished 1800. (See vol. ii. pp. 13, 14.)Oct. 1.Matrimonial Comforts. Republished 1800. (See vol. ii. pp. 14–16.)28.Sailor and Banker, or the Firm in Danger. (See 'A Note of Hand,' vol. i. p. 369.)Dec. 20.The Monkey Room in the Tower. Pub. by R. Ackermann.Connoisseurs of Art.Slaverers.O Tempora, O Mores! S. Alken fecit.1800.Jan. 1.Preparing to Start.(See vol. ii. p. 222.)The Race and the Course. Companion.Buck's Beauty and Rowlandson's Connoisseur. Pub. by W. Holland.21.Titlepage to series of twenty subjects.LE BRUN TRAVESTIED, or Caricatures of the Passions. Designed by G. M. Woodward. Etched by T. Rowlandson. Pub. by R. Ackermann.No. 3. Admiration.('Hatred or Jealousy' should be numbered 19. See vol. ii. pp. 1, 2.)Aug. 15.Shaving a Forestaller.The Tinker.Swinging.1801.Jan. 15.A Mahomedan Mousetrap. Companion to'Symptoms of Sanctity.'(See vol. ii. pp. 27–8.)April 1.Public Characters. A group of portraits arranged behind a lattice or window-frame. Woodward del. Rowlandson sculp.Oct. 12.John Bull in the year 1800.—War.John Bull in the year 1801.—Peace. Pub. by R. Ackermann.Nov. 15.A British Seaman.—A Heart of Oak.Market Place, Cambridge.1802.May 1.Plate 6. School of Honours. 'A Compendious Treatise on Modern Education.' ('The Stages of Man's Schooling.' See vol. ii. p. 47.)July 1.Manager (Garrick) and Spouter. Republished.Bookseller and Author. Republished. (See 1784).One Tree Hill. Greenwich Park.1803.May 1.The Easter Hunt. Designed by H. Bunbury. Pub. by R. Ackermann.The City Hunt. Ditto, ditto.Nov.The Trumpet and the Bassoon. (See 1811.)A Trip to Gretna Green. (See 1785.)1804.June 30.A Dismounted Light Horse Volunteer. Woodward del. Rowlandson sculp.1805.Apr. 28.The Political Death and Last Will and Testament of Johnny Macree. Pub. by T. Rowlandson. (See series of satires upon the impeachment of Lord Melville, vol. ii. pp. 49, 50.)May 25.A Sailor's Marriage. Woodward inv. Rowlandson sculp. Pub. by R. Ackermann. (Companion to 'A Sailor's Will.' See vol. ii. p. 51.)July 28.The Blessings of Partnership. Designed by Woodward. Rowlandson fec.Nov. 25.A Sailor in a Stable.Dec. 3.A Sailor's Observations upon the lamented Death of Lord Nelson. Designed by Woodward. Rowlandson del. Pub. by R. Ackermann.9.The Brave Tars of the 'Victory,' and the Remains of the lamented Nelson. Designed by Woodward. Rowlandson del. Pub. by R. Ackermann.11.The French Admiral on board the 'Euryalus.'1806.Apr. 16.The New Property Tax paying his Respects to John Bull.20.A Brace of Brimstones. (See 'A Cake in Danger,' vol. ii. p. 58.)May 1.The Poacher. (See 'A Maiden Aunt Smelling Fire,' vol. ii. pp. 58, 59.)June 23.Political Terriers Hunting the Property Tax. (See satires upon the Grenville and Fox Administration, vol. ii. pp. 58–61.)1807.July 14.The Rivals.Oct. 9.The Honeymoon.Miseries of Human Life. House Cleaning.Pull'd Turkey.Collar'd Pig. Companions to'A Calf's Pluck'and'Rusty Bacon.'(See vol. ii. pp. 80–2.)1808.Aug. 23.Horrid Visions, or Nappy Napp'd at Last. Woodward del. Rowlandson sculp.Nov. 1.Notice to Quit, or a Will of their own. (See caricatures against Bonaparte, vol. ii. pp. 92–102.) Pub. by Tegg.A Musical Doctor and his Scholars. Pub. by Reeve & Jones. (See 1815.)The Unexpected Return, or the Snip in Danger. Ditto. (See series of plagiarisms from Rowlandson's drawings. Pub. by Reeve & Jones. Vol. ii. pp. 90, 91, 297.)1809.Feb. 23.St. Valentine's Day, or John Bull Intercepting a Letter to his Wife. Pub. by Tegg.(Parody of the Duke of York's letters to Mrs. Clarke. 'Yorkshire Hieroglyphics,' pl. 1, March 8, 1809.)Mar. 3.Farmer Blunt's Apology. (Satire on 'The Delicate Investigation.') (See Rowlandson's caricatures upon the 'Clarke Scandal,' vol. ii. pp. 135–162.)Apr. 17.Dr. Donovan. ('Investigation of the Charges brought against H.R.H. the Duke of York,' &c. See Chronological Summary, 1809.)21.Connoisseurs. (A plagiarism.) Pub. by Reeve & Jones. (See 1799.)Portsmouth Breeze.28.A Visit to the Synagogue.May 26.This is the House in Gloucester Place. Plate 1.Do. do. do. " 2.(The York and Clarke Scandal. See 'The Delicate Investigation,' vol. ii. pp. 135–162.)July 18.An Old Catch newly revived. 'York and Clarke Scandal.' (See 'The Delicate Investigation,' vol. ii. pp. 135–162.)

APPENDIX.

ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF REFERENCE UPON ROWLANDSON'S CARICATURES.

CATALOGUE OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Further information is open to enquirers who are interested in tracing the works of the caricaturist. The important catalogue of the satirical prints and drawings in the British Museum, now in course of publication, will include all the examples found in that institution, if the Trustees decide to continue it beyond the limit originally settled (about 1770). The preparation of the catalogue in question, which has been placed in the hands of probably the very ablest authority on the subject of satire who has ever lived, is of necessity a work of time. The elucidation of the earlier graphic satires has occupied years of patient industry, by which alone the social and political pictorial 'skits' could be made intelligible—an undertaking which the lapse of time annually makes more complicated as regards the interpretation of those lighter trifles of bygone times, which, in spite of their triviality, often possess an historical value, unintelligible to the majority of students, because hidden away in the obscurity of allusions beyond the vision of the present generation.

The task of tracing and explaining the intentions of the graphic satirists, commenced by Mr. Edward Hawkins, original owner of an immense collection of their works, is being continued and successfully carried out for the Trustees of the British Museum by Mr. Frederic George Stephens. The catalogue, an important contribution to the history of the subject, has, as we have said, already been years in hand, and is slowly but surely advancing through the comparatively lost paths of the past. A new light has been thrown upon the satires of the times of the Tudors, the Stuarts, the Commonwealth, the Restoration, the accession of the Prince of Orange and of the House of Hanover. The results of the editor's painstaking researches are completed and open for consultation up to the conclusion of the Hogarth period; the notices upon the works of the great luminary of the school, which are included in the volume published in the presentyear, will be found of so thoroughly exhaustive a character, that the interest generally felt in Hogarth is likely to be increased, especially as a considerable amount of entirely new and curious matter has been discovered by Mr. Stephens in the course of his investigations.

CATALOGUE OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Div. 1. Political and Personal Satires. Prepared for publication by Frederic George Stephens, and containing many descriptions by Edward Hawkins, late Keeper of the Antiquities, F.S.A. Printed by order of the Trustees. With an introduction by George William Reid, Esq., Keeper of the Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.

A selection of subjects, treated by Rowlandson with more freedom than is consonant with the taste of the latter half of the nineteenth century, is also given by PISANUS FRAXI, in his elaborate and exhaustive work CENTURIA LIBRORUM ABSCONDITORUM (1879). Pisanus Fraxi has set down (pp. 346–398) descriptions of over one hundred and twenty subjects of more or less erotic tendency. The major part of the etchings included by this authority are of necessity inadmissible in the present work, owing to their licentious suggestiveness; but a few of the subjects described in the 'Centuria Librorum Absconditorum,' restricted exclusively to social caricatures by Rowlandson, the originals of which maybe consulted in the Print Room and Library of the British Museum, are also instanced in the foregoing pages.

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY T. ROWLANDSON IN THE PRINT ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON IN THE POSSESSION OF GEORGE WILLIAM REID, ESQ., KEEPER OF THE PRINTS AND DRAWINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

WINDSOR CASTLE. THE ROYAL COLLECTION.

ORIGINAL WORKS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON IN THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. (COLLECTION OF WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS OF THE ENGLISH SCHOOL.)

DYCE COLLECTION, SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.

ILLUSTRATIONS TO 'THE TOUR OF DR. SYNTAX IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE.'[30]

Syntax, still trembling with affright,Clung to the tree with all his might.Vol. i. p. 40.

The Doctor now, with genius big,First drew a cow, and then a pig.Vol. i. p. 121.

The comely pair by whom he sat,A lady cheerful in her chat.—Vol. iii. p. 163.

Your sport, my lord, I cannot take,For I must go and hunt a lake.—Vol. i. p. 108.

For while he sojourns he will beThe object of all courtesy.—Vol. ii. p. 217.

But now, alas! no more remainsThan will reward the painter's pains.Vol. i. p. 71.

Bold sketches from the very sceneWhere, with his neighbours, he had been.Vol. ii. p. 64.

The following drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, with several engravings of his London views, already described under the accounts of his prints in this work, were exhibited (1879) in the western portion of the Exhibition Galleries, South Kensington, in the valuable and interesting series of

VIEWS OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER. COLLECTED AND EXHIBITED BY JOHN GREGORY CRACE, ESQ.

Original drawing of Brooks's Subscription Room, in the possession of

HENRY BANDERET, ESQ. BROOKS'S CLUB.

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON IN POSSESSION OF W. R. BAKER, J.P., ESQ., OF BAYFORDBURY PARK, HERTFORD.

At Bayfordbury Park—where, it will be remembered, the celebrated collection of the Kit Cat Club, a national gallery of portraits, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, of the most interesting character, has its home—the choice examples of Rowlandson's skill appear to have been secured by the family at one time, and that at what may be considered the artist's best period—a little before the production ofVauxhall Gardens, and the series contributed to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy.

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON. (COLLECTION OF W. T. B. ASHLEY, ESQ., DECEASED.)

THE APPARITION.

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON IN THE POSSESSION OF THE EDITOR OF THE PRESENT VOLUMES.

SORTIE FROM A LEVÉE.

A TOAD-EATER.

SMOKING A CUSTOMER.

Arthur.Let me not be bound.Nay, hear me, Hubert, drive those men away.

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON. (COLLECTION OF THOMAS CAPRON, ESQ., ARUNDEL HOUSE, RICHMOND.)

Mr. Capron's selection contains numerous subjects from the collections of Lord Farnham and the late W. T. Ashley, Esq. Besides being the owner of a very fine selection of the best prints after Rowlandson, many of considerable size, value, and importance, (for the loan of several choice examples, which are both rare and difficult to obtain, the writer begs to record his grateful acknowledgments to the fortunate possessor;) Mr. Capron has also collected quite a gallery of original drawings; among the number are some truly capital examples. The titles of a selection from the numerous subjects are as follow. (See also the collection of the late Mr. Ashley.)

Why, the bullets and the goutHave so knocked his hull aboutThat he'll never like the sea any more!

THE FOLLOWING DRAWINGS HAVE ALSO COME UNDER THE EDITOR'S ATTENTION.

COLLECTION OF JOHN COLE STOGDON, M.A., ESQ., 18 CLIFFORD'S INN.

This gentleman, amongst a rich gathering of drawings, caricatures, and social satires, has secured numerous good examples of prints executed by Rowlandson, including the rare series of the 'Stages of Man's Schooling' (1802). We have to instance a spirited drawing by the caricaturist, which is in the possession of Mr. Stogdon: 'Forbidden Fruit.'

FIGURE DRAWINGS AFTER THE OLD MASTERS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON, IN THE COLLECTION OF COLONEL GOULD WESTON, THURLOE SQUARE.

The drawings mentioned above, like most of the caricaturist's fluent renderings of subjects after the Old Masters, are far removed from mere copies or servile imitations, being, in actual fact, free adaptations of the works in question, strongly characterised with the individualities of Rowlandson's style.Colonel Weston, in addition to this unique series, possesses a collection of original drawings by the artist, which includes, among numerous interesting examples of varying importance, one of Rowlandson's most graceful and finished drawings, worked out with a taste and delicacy altogether remarkable. The subject is a domestic scene, introducing two charming figures (likenesses in all probability) executed after the style of the portrait of Morland (mentioned in the first part of this work, now in the Print Room, British Museum, seep. 412), and evidently executed at the same period.

Colonel Weston, in addition to this unique series, possesses a collection of original drawings by the artist, which includes, among numerous interesting examples of varying importance, one of Rowlandson's most graceful and finished drawings, worked out with a taste and delicacy altogether remarkable. The subject is a domestic scene, introducing two charming figures (likenesses in all probability) executed after the style of the portrait of Morland (mentioned in the first part of this work, now in the Print Room, British Museum, seep. 412), and evidently executed at the same period.

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON. (COLLECTION IN THE POSSESSION OF JOHN WEST, ESQ., BAYSWATER.)

The cup that cheers but not inebriates.

'Tis woman that seduces all mankind.

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOS. ROWLANDSON IN THE POSSESSION OF JOHN CHESTER, ESQ., OF OLD SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN.

A smoking chimney, and a scolding wife.

The dangers of the ocean o'er,Death wrecks the sailors on the shore.

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOS. ROWLANDSON IN THE POSSESSION OF A. H. BATES, ESQ., EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM.

Two bores all at once have taken a trip:I've buried my rib, and got rid of the hip.

LIST OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON IN THE COLLECTION OF WILLIAM BATES, ESQ., B.A., M.R.C.S, &c., BIRMINGHAM.[33]

When come to the grave the clerk humm'd a stave,Whilst the surplice was wrapped round the priest;When so droll was the figure of Moses and Vicar,That the parish still laugh at the jest.Singing tol de rol, &c.

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