Amorous Illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson

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pages, très bon état, intérieur très frais, nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc ou en couleurs.

Amorous Illustrations by Schiff Gert Rowlandson Thomas

Signed by the author to front endpaper, with inscription "To Sharon, hope you find the contents of this book interesting". The drawing of this caricature is generally poor, although the second woman is not bad, and the execution very rough; the piece seems to have been done in a hurry. Leda is reclining in a kind of cave, with drapery arranged round her, but her person entirely nude, a coronet on her head; with her right leg, which is raised over its back, she presses the swan to her; the swan's head nestles between her breasts, and its beak and her mouth are united.Under a tree, an old parson is having connection with a girl, whose breasts and buttocks are exposed, and who is lying on the back of the clerk, on his knees underneath her; she has her left hand on the parson’s shoulder, and with her right holds on to a branch of the tree. An old bawd is exhibiting the body of a young, and innocent-looking girl to an antiquated debauchee, who is peering at the naked breasts of the maiden through an eye-glass. Exterior of a cottage; to the right and left of which are two couples in the act; an old woman with a broom is beating two dogs stuck together, while another woman from the window is endeavouring to drive away two cats who are amusing themselves on the roof. From Ackermann's Microcosm of London here is a hand coloured aquatint, Hill was the engraver, Rowlandson and Pugin the designers/artists.

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A youth and a girl, seated at a table, are copulating; the girl is astride on the young man's lap, with her back towards him, although she turns her face round to his. On the floor, to the right, are a basin and ewer, and to the left in back ground a dog is stealing from a plate on the table. In Love, a couple are embracing on a couch; the man seems very eager, and the woman quite indifferent. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Ashbee, Henry Spencer [Pisanus Fraxi] (1885).Very good condition hard cover, with poor condition jacket, chips to jacket, some wear to cover and spine, internally clean and tidy, otherwise in a good readable condition. Most of the art in this book is part of the George IV collection at Windsor Castle, while other specimens are in the Victoria and Albert Museum and in the British Museum. In a hay-field two youths and three wenches are romping on the ground, while a fourth girl is about to throw some hay upon them. Rowlandson also produced highly explicit erotica for a private clientele; this was never published publicly at the time and is now only found in a small number of collections.