Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2 by Joseph Grego

Ah! then dismounted from his spavin'd hack, To Bethlehem's walls, with Burke, I saw him borne, There the straight waistcoat close embrac'd his back: While Peggy's wreath of straw did either brow adorn, And there they sit, two grinners, _vis-a-vis_; He writing Grub Street verse, Burke ranting rhapsody. _Vide Melancholy Catastrophe_, _by_ PETER FIG, Esq. The bard Peter Pindar is leaning his elbows on a sheet of verses lately commenced, 'An Ode to Paine,' his poems the 'Lousiad,' 'Pension,' 'Ode upon Ode,' &c., are scattered on the ground. Burke, with a shaven head, and wearing a rosary round his neck, is declaiming impassioned eloquence, while his foot is trampling upon two volumes, the 'Rights of Man,' and 'Common Sense,' with Peter Pindar's 'Ode upon Ode.' 1800 (?). _Country Characters. No. 1, A Publican._ Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand.--The parlour of a country public-house, hung round with pictures on equestrian subjects, after the manner of the inimitable gallery of Professor Gambado: _Horse Accomplishments_, introducing such peculiarities as _An Astronomer, or Star-gazing Steed_; _An Arithmetician_, where the animal is working out problems with his nose on the ground; _A Loiterer_, where the horse pauses to ruminate, &c. The publican is drinking in true old-fashioned landlordlike style with the squire, a Tony Lumkin of a landed proprietor; mine host wears a red nightcap, and clean white sleeves, apron, and stockings. Tony Lumkin has been trying to palm off an old story on his friend, but the landlord's experience is too much for him. 'Come, squire,' he cries, 'that won't do; that's Joe Miller, I'm sure, page 490.' _Country Characters. No. 2, A Justice._ Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. _Country Characters. No. 3, A Barber._ Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand.--A stout gentleman, divested of his wig, has sat down for the tonsorial process, holding in his lap the _London Gazette Newspaper_; the village Figaro, a highly-dried and austere personage, of marked political proclivities, has fixed his melancholy eyes on the latest intelligence, while, not to waste time, he is pursuing the operation of shaving his unhappy victim; simultaneously the edge of his razor-blade is taking an upward tendency, and his right hand is sawing away at the sitter's olfactory organ, while his left holds that important member immoveable. 'They write from Amsterdam,' reads the preoccupied barber; while the gentleman in the seat of torture, writhing with pain and apprehension, vehemently shouts: 'Halloh! you sir,--what, are you going to cut my nose off?' The remainder of the series does not require a more particular description. 1800 (?). _Country Characters. No. 4, Footman._ Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. 1800 (?). _Country Characters. No. 5, Tax-gatherer._ Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. 1800 (?). _Country Characters. No. 6, Squire._ Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. 1800 (?). _Country Characters. No. 7, Vicar._ Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. 1800 (?). _Country Characters. No. 8, Doctor._ Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. 1800 (?). _Country Characters. No. 9, Exciseman._ Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. 1800 (?). _Country Characters. No. 10, Steward._ Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. 1800 (?). _Country Characters. No. 11, Attorney._ Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. 1800 (?). _Country Characters. No. 12, London Outrider, or Brother Saddle-bag._ Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand.