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See also:ROWLANDSON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1756–1827) , See also:English caricaturist, was See also:born in Old Jewry, See also:London, in See also:July 1756, the son of a tradesman or See also:city See also:merchant. On leaving school he became a student in the Royal See also:Academy. At the See also:age of sixteen he resided and studied for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:Paris, and he afterwards made frequent See also:tours on the See also:Continent, enriching his portfolios with numerous jottings of See also:life and See also:character. In 1775 he exhibited at the Royal Academy a See also:drawing of " See also:Delilah visiting See also:Samson in See also:Prison," and in the following years he was represented by various portraits and landscapes. Possessed of much facility of See also:execution and a ready command of the figure, he was spoken of as a promising student; and had he continued his See also:early application he would have made his See also:mark as a painter. But by the See also:death of his aunt, a See also:French See also:lady, he See also:fell See also:heir to a sum of 7000, plunged into the dissipations of the See also:town and was known to sit at the gaming-table for See also:thirty-six See also:hours at a stretch. In time poverty overtook him; and the friendship and example of See also:Gillray and See also:Bunbury seem to have suggested See also:caricature as a means of filling an empty See also:purse. His drawing of See also:Vauxhall, shown in the Royal Academy See also:exhibition of 1784, had been engraved by See also:Pollard, and the See also:print was a success. Rowlandson was largely employed by See also:Rudolph See also:Ackermann, the See also:art publisher, who in 1809-I1 issued in his Poetical See also:Magazine "The Schoolmaster's Tour "—a See also:series of plates with illustrative verses by Dr See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Coombe. They were the most popular of the artist's See also:works. Again engraved by Rowlandson himself in 1812, and issued under the See also:title of the " Tour of Dr Syntax
in See also:Search of the Picturesque," they had attained a fifth edition by 1813, and were followed in 182o by " Dr Syntax in Search of See also:Consolation," and in 1821 by the " Third Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of a Wife." The same Collaboration of designer, author and publisher appeared in the English " See also:Dance of Death," issued in 1814—16, one of the most admirable of Rowlandson's series, and in the " Dance of Life," 1822. Rowlandson also illustrated See also:Smollett, See also:Goldsmith and See also:Sterne, and his designs will be found in The Spirit of the Public See also:Journals (1825), The English See also:Spy (1825), and The Humourist (1831). He died in London, after a prolonged illness, on the 22nd of See also:April 1827.
Rowlandson's designs were usually executed in outline with the See also:reed-See also:pen, and delicately washed with See also:colour. They were then etched by the artist on the See also:copper, and afterwards aqua-tintedusually by a professional engraver, the impressions being finally coloured by See also:hand. As a designer he was characterized by the utmost facility and ease of draughtsmanship, and the quality of his art suffered from this haste and over-See also:production. He was a true if not a very refined humorist, dealing less frequently than his fierce contemporary Gillray with politics, but commonly touching, in a rather See also:gentle spirit, the various aspects and incidents of social life. His most See also:artistic See also:work is to be found among the more careful drawings of his earlier See also:period; but even among the exaggerated caricature of his later time we find hints that this See also:master of the humorous might have attained to the beautiful had he so willed.
See J. Grego, Rowlandson the Caricaturist, a Selection from his Works, &c. (2 vols., r88o).
End of Article: ROWLANDSON, THOMAS (1756–1827)
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