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

1808 and 1809. _An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting._ Illustrated with five prints. From designs by G. M. Woodward, Esq. (author of 'Eccentric Excursions'). Rowlandson, sc. 12mo. London. Printed for Thomas Tegg. I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen; More clamorous than a parrot against rain; More new-fangled than an ape; And more giddy in my desires than a monkey.--SHAKESPEARE. Folding frontispiece.--A Savoyard with a barrel-organ and a troupe of dancing dogs; a Frenchman with a dancing bear; a showman dragging about a dromedary, with a monkey perched on its hump, and pulling the animal's ears. A bird made to fire off a gun, in the rear of a half-starved individual who is lost in hungry longing outside the window of an eating-house; while the proprietor is taunting the famished gazer with a huge round of beef. A cat is torturing a mouse. A woman is eavesdropping. Another cat is getting a bird out of a cage. A woman is emptying a vessel over the heads of a crowd gathered round a tussle. A cat is launched in the air on bladders. A pair of ruffians are racing on donkeys, and flogging the beasts unmercifully. All these episodes set forth various phases of the fine art of Tormenting.