Thomas Rowlandson: Westminster Bridge Road London

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