An old officer in uniform with a wrinkled face and carbuncles looks lustfully at a pretty young woman as they walk together on a path, his hand grasping hers
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Attributed to Rowlandson., and Date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Lust, Older people, Young adults, and Women
A watercolor sketch of two rotund monks in front of a entrance to monastery in a lane within gate and wall surround. One attends closely to a young lady with two baskets on her arms; the other reads, lounging on a bench with his one foot raised
Description:
Title from note in ink in lower right corner., Unsigned; attributed to Rowlandson by Andrew Clayton-Payne, author of a catalog of Rowlandson. Similar in theme (and in architecture) to signed watercolors at the Yale Center for British Art., and With dealer's notes in pencil on verso.
Subject (Topic):
Courtyards, Lust, Monasteries, Monks, Obesity, and Reading
Title inscribed in ink at lower left., John Thurtell was a notorious murderer who, as part of his sentence, was dissected the day after he was hung., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Physicians, Dissections, and Thurtell, John, 1794-1824
Title in ink at bottom center. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Human skeleton, Alcoholism, Gluttony, and Death (Personification).
Two gentlemen wearing academic caps stand looking at tomb effigy in a side chapel of a church. The one man who has a large belly and is gesturing toward the tomb, bears some resemblance to Samuel Johnson. To the right, man confronts a woman who seems prepared to deliver a backhanded slap with her fan and A second drawing on the back of the sheet is of a street scene, with a carriage, horse-drawn omnibus, various couples promenading in the street with one man begging with hat in hand
Description:
Titles devised by cataloger., Unsigned; attributed to Rowlandson., and Date from dealer's description.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Churches, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Academic costumes, Beggars, City & town life, Carriages & coaches, and Pedestrians
Title devised by curator., "Rowlandson" in brown ink at lower right., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England).
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Physicians, Gout, Gluttony, and Patients
Title devised by curator., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England).
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Physicians, Gout, Gluttony, and Patients
Three doctors stand together in discussion, wearing wigs and tailcoats. The man on the right holds a wine glass; bottles and additional glasses sit on a table behind him. In the background on the left the patient can be seen, lying in a canopy bed
Description:
Title and date supplied by curator., Unsigned; attribution to Rowlandson from curator., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: John Crompton -- William Esdaile -- [*R. Willett].
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Discussion, Sick persons, and Canopy beds
A scene from Dante's 'Divine Comedy' showing Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, Count of Donoratico (c. 1220-1289), an Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander and his sons and grandchildren imprisoned in a dungeon. After Reynolds
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, from that of the original painting by Reynolds., Signed by the artist in lower left corner., and Drawn after Sir Joshua Reynolds’s painting, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1773 and is currently in the National Trust Collection at Knole, Kent (accession no.: 129934).
Subject (Geographic):
Italian.
Subject (Name):
Ugolino, della Gherardesca, conte di Donoratico, -1289,
Subject (Topic):
Capture & imprisonment, Dungeons, Political prisoners, and Children
Title devised by curator., Attributed to Thomas Rowlandson., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and William Combe, The English Dance of Death.
Subject (Topic):
Human skeleton, Death (Personification), Death in art, Murder, and Devil