Thomas Rowlandson: Busy Scene at Wapping Old Stairs

This collection of drawings illustrates the talent of Thomas Rowlandson as he captures on paper both the popular and aristocratic joyous ribaldry of the time, with a charming and humorous wit. A talented painter and graduate of the London Royal Academy, Rowlandson was also a gambler and a bon vivant. ...more

Paperback booklet. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of works by Francis Barlow, Thomas Gainsborough, Henry Fuseli, Francis Wheatley, Thomas Rowlandson, Old Crome, J. M. W. Turner, John Sell Cotman, George Henry Harlow, and Alfred Stevens. ...more