Three anatomical dissections taking place in an attic. Coloured lithograph by T. C. Wilson after a pen and wash drawing by T. Rowlandson.

Transplanting of teeth.

Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.

The dance of death: the prisoner discharged. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

The dance of death: the battle. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

The dance of death: the glutton. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

The dance of death: the virago. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

The dance of death: the careless and the careful. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.

An obese man wooing a tall lean woman outside a mausoleum; representing dropsy and consumption. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.

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From Hogarth to Rowlandson : medicine in art in eighteenth-century Britain / Fiona Haslam.

Rowlandson the caricaturist.

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History of medicine.

Thomas Rowlandson's medical cartoons / by Aubrey Noakes.

9 prints : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 x 21 cm in folder

Medicine and Caricature / The Wellcome Trust.

2 volumes : frontispiece (portrait), illustrations ; 29 cm

Rowlandson the caricaturist : a selection from his works, with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries / by Joseph Grego ; with about four hundred illustrations.

The English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illustrations, by the author of "Dr Syntax"

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 12.4 x 19.6 cm

The dance of death: the schoolmaster. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

A man and a young woman embrace each other: they are are watched by a girl and a dog standing at the door. Etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1815.

A physician with a garland of bottles, pill boxes and a clyster-pipe. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.

<p>The St. James Workhouse was between Poland Street and Carnaby Market, approximately on the site of the present-day Municipal Baths</p>

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 19.4 x 26 cm

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 12 x 20.6 cm

The dance of death: skaters. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827

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From Hogarth to Rowlandson : medicine in art in eighteenth-century Britain / Fiona Haslam.

Rowlandson the caricaturist.

Thomas Rowlandson's medical cartoons / by Aubrey Noakes.

Medicine and Caricature / The Wellcome Trust.

Rowlandson the caricaturist : a selection from his works, with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries / by Joseph Grego ; with about four hundred illustrations.

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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827

Images

Works

From Hogarth to Rowlandson : medicine in art in eighteenth-century Britain / Fiona Haslam.

Rowlandson the caricaturist.

Thomas Rowlandson's medical cartoons / by Aubrey Noakes.

Medicine and Caricature / The Wellcome Trust.

Rowlandson the caricaturist : a selection from his works, with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries / by Joseph Grego ; with about four hundred illustrations.

Wellcome Collection

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