painter of marine subjects—George Cruikshank's estimation of Thomas Rowlandson—General review of Rowlandson's caricatures: Gambling, the Westminster Election, 1784; political struggles between the Whigs and Tories, Pitt and Fox, the King and the Prince, fashions, the clergy, the Bar, usures, doctors, quackery, John Bull, foreigners, cockneys, countrymen, the Universities, collegians, the military, the navy, seaport sketches, amusements of the bon-ton, Vauxhall, the Opera, theatres, card-playing, sharpers, drinking, feasting, sport, fox-hunting, horse-racing, prize-fighting, rural sports, masquerading, picnic revels, fortune-hunters, elopements, Gretna Green, travesties, parodies, and burlesques, trials, scandals, housebreaking, highway robberies, the passions, the Royal Family—Imitations of the old masters: Female studies, croquis taken in France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, England and Wales, the metropolis—The Regency struggle—Admiral Lord Nelson—The miseries of human life—The Great French Revolution—Napoleon Buonaparte—The Delicate Investigation—The Royal Academy, &c., &c.—Manifold production of drawings—Contributions to book illustration—Portraits of the caricaturist—The artist and his relatives—His schoolfellows—A student in Paris—At the Academy schools—His early friends Bannister and Angelo—Tricks on the Royal Academicians—His friends Pyne and John Thomas Smith—Studies of Continental character—Between London and Paris—Is left a fortune—His passion for the gambling-table—The integrity of his conduct—Successive exhibits at the Royal Academy—Portraits in oil—His travels at home and abroad; the companions of his excursions; Mitchell the banker and Henry Wigstead the magistrate—Congenial spirits—Vauxhall Gardens—Lord Barrymore—Nocturnal frolics—Play—Successive drawings of social satires, contributed to the Royal Academy Exhibitions—Rowlandson robbed—Identifies a thief—Lord Howe's victory—French prisoners—Sketches of the embarkation of the expedition for La Vendée—Sojourns in Paris with Angelo, John Raphael Smith, Westmacott, and Chasemore—Sketching in the Netherlands and Germany with Mitchell—John Bull on his travels—Night auctions of pictures, drawings, and prints—Old Parsons, 'Antiquity' Smith, Edwin, Greenwood, Hutchins, Heywood—Relaxations of the period—Nights at Mitchell's—Wigstead and 'Peter Pindar'—Wolcot's stories—Dinners with Weltjé at Hammersmith—The Prince of Wales—Theatrical worthies, Munden, Palmer and Madame Banti—Convivialities—The Prince's Maître d'Hôtel: his cooking and anecdotes—Excursions in England: views in Cumberland, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, Hampshire, &c.—Studies in the Universities: views of the Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge—Malcolm's 'Historical Sketch of the Art of Caricaturing'—Wright's 'History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art'—Rowlandson as an etcher of the works of amateur caricaturists: his own spirit lent to the productions of Wigstead, Nixon, Woodward, Bunbury, Collings, &c.—Sketches of contemporary caricaturists: William Henry Bunbury, George Moutard Woodward, Henry Wigstead, the facetious John Nixon—The Beef-steak Club—The 'well-bread man'—Collings, artist and editor of the 'Public Ledger'—Caleb Whiteford—'Ephraim Hardcastle'—James Heath—George Morland—James Gillray—Allusions to Rowlandson in the 'Life of James Gillray, the Caricaturist, with the Story of his Works and Times'—The position of caricaturists in relation to their contemporaries—Henry Angelo, the fencing master—Personal characteristics of satirists—Rowlandson's publisher, Rudolph Ackermann: sketch of his life—Conversazioni at the 'Repository of Arts'—Special qualities of Rowlandson's productions—Esteem in which he was held by contemporaries—His death and funeral

1 1774–1781.

A Rotation Office—The Village Doctor— A Scene at Streatham—Bozzy and Piozzi—Special Pleading—The Power of Reflection—E O, or the Fashionable Vowels—Gambling Tables— Charity Covereth a Multitude of Sins—Bob Derry—Luxury—Political and social caricatures for 1781 96 1782–1783. Amputation—The Rhedarium—The Discovery— Interior of a Clockmaker's Shop—The Times—Political and social caricatures for 1783 107 1784.
POLITICAL CARICATURES. The Pit of Acheron—The Fall of Dagon—The Coalition—Fox and North Ministries—Britannia Roused—The East India Company—The Apostate Jack Robinson—The Champion of the People—Master Billy's Procession to Grocers' Hall—The State Auction—The Westminster Election—The Hanoverian Horse and the British Lion—The Canvass—The Rival Duchesses—The Rival Candidates: Hon. Charles James Fox, Lord Hood,