Thomas Rowlandson: Sailors and Friends Drinking Grog Aboard Their Ship

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

From Hogarth to Rowlandson shows how medicine and medical practitioners were portrayed by some of the artists of the eighteenth century. Medical imagery is a forceful component of eighteenth-century art and, taken as a corpus, the works of artists such as Hogarth and Rowlandson provide a lay view of some ...more