A selection of subjects, treated by Rowlandson with more freedom than is consonant with the taste of the latter half of the nineteenth century, is also given by PISANUS FRAXI, in his elaborate and exhaustive work CENTURIA LIBRORUM ABSCONDITORUM (1879). Pisanus Fraxi has set down (pp. 346–398) descriptions of over one hundred and twenty subjects of more or less erotic tendency. The major part of the etchings included by this authority are of necessity inadmissible in the present work, owing to their licentious suggestiveness; but a few of the subjects described in the 'Centuria Librorum Absconditorum,' restricted exclusively to social caricatures by Rowlandson, the originals of which maybe consulted in the Print Room and Library of the British Museum, are also instanced in the foregoing pages.
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY T. ROWLANDSON IN THE PRINT ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
- Blood Royal. Duke of Cumberland, with spyglass, followed by his footman. A back view of the Prince Regent, shown in the distance, talking to some officers.
- A Drunkard. An inebriated figure has fallen, in a state of partial insensibility, on his back, in a spirit-cellar, leaving the liquor running; a stout and by no means elegant female, of evidently Dutch construction, is trying to bring the toper to consciousness by the use of a birch-broom.
- The Trout Fisher Rising.
- Rowing for the Coat and Badge.
- [A Prize Fight.]
- Domestic Tranquillity.
- Portsmouth Harbour, 1816.
- Landscape (in Gainsborough's manner).
- A Market Town in Cornwall.
- A Continental Scene, 17th century. Lady in coach, running footman before; piazza in distance.
- Landscape in Cornwall.
- 'Putting up Horses.' A country scene.
- Portrait of George Morland, full length, standing before a fireplace in a well-appointed apartment. (About 1787, when Morland was living in considerable style at a handsome new house, the corner of Warren's Place, Hampstead.) The person of the artist is carefully studied, and the items of his dress are most characteristically noted, this being the time of Morland's most marked foppishness.
- Guildhall Association.
- Portrait of a Lady.
- A Beau and his Chronometer.
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON IN THE POSSESSION OF GEORGE WILLIAM REID, ESQ., KEEPER OF THE PRINTS AND DRAWINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
- View of a Castle.
- View near Bridgport, Dorsetshire.
- View in Devonshire.
WINDSOR CASTLE. THE ROYAL COLLECTION.
- An English Review. Purchased by George IV.
- A French Review. Ditto.