Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection. Catalogue for the exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London 1978. Two nude females are asleep under drapery suspended over the branch of a tree; they are both seated; one rests her head on her right hand, the head of the other reposes on her arms lying on a bank upon which she leans; a naked, chubby child slumbers on the ground beside them. Signed, outside the frame, "Cipriani". Interior. A man and woman, seated on a chair, are playing the same harp together; she is seated on his lap, the lower part of her person entirely naked, two feathers in her head; they are copulating. To the left, behind a screen, sits an old woman asleep before the fire with a bottle and glass under her chair. To the right, a window with a small table and a chair before it. On the floor an open music-book. A church-yard. A fat parson is reading the burial service over a grave surrounded by several mourners; while to the left, against a window of the church, a countryman and a lass are copulating in an upright posture; the girl's clothes are up above her posterior, which is very plump, and into which the swain is inserting the middle finger of his right hand. [e]

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Interior. A woman, in an upright posture, her left leg kneeling on a bench covered with a robe, holds in her right hand that of a little boy who is standing behind her. To the left are a girl, and a statue of Priapus without arms, to the right one of Silenus. There is a reproduction of this plate; the size is the same, and the figures are not turned; "it is, however, not so bold and free in execution as the original, is much softened down, and carried out in great part in stipple, which is not the case in the plate etched by Rowlandson; moreover, the hair and faces of the girls differ." [7] As part of the Met's Open Access policy, you can freely copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes. APIWark, Robert A. (1975). Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Huntington Collection. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library. There is an imitation of this composition, turned, and etched rather faintly in line; the stairs are suppressed, and the pail standing on the last cask is replaced by a hat. This is a most remarkable and original composition. … This composition displays much force, power and weird humour." [57]

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Interior of a studio. Two gentlemen are entering abruptly, while an artist is painting from a naked girl on a sofa before him; he holds up his hands as if to entreat them to retire; the girl is crying. Unsigned. Here are four different compositions on two plates; two only are free, viz., Luxury and Love. In the former a man and woman are sitting up in bed and drinking tea, which a servant girl is offering them; the woman's bosom is bare, and the man presses one of her breasts with his right hand, which is passed round her waist. In Love, a couple are embracing on a couch; the man seems very eager, and the woman quite indifferent. All four compositions are signed: Luxury and Misery simply "T. Rowlandson", while to the other two are added the dates, Harmony 1785, Love 1796. George, Mary Dorothy (1949). Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Vol.9. Great Britain: British Museum Press.