Amorous Illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson

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A very fat woman, in the act of eloping with a military gentleman, has fallen off the ladder placed against the window, and of which a stale is broken, and lies sprawling on the top of her lover.

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A quaker, holding up his shirt with both hands, and his breeches about his knees, stands on tip toes in the middle of the room; one girl, with a large feather in her hair, sits on a bed, with her legs wide apart, and exposes her genitals to his astonished gaze; a second girl, reclining on the same bed, handles his enormous member, and a third female, on another couch behind, pushes him forward with her left foot, which she has planted between his shoulders. Internally clean and tidy throughout with 24 bright and colourful full page plates by Rowlandson, all checked and complete. The drawing of this caricature is generally poor, although the second woman is not bad, and the execution very rough; the piece seems to have been done in a hurry.hardcover, dust jacket, maroon cloth, 50 full page colour plates of erotica and several black and white illustrations in the introduction, jacket has a closed tear at the top front spine edge jacket now in a clear removable plastic sleeve, previous owner's stamp and name to free front endpaper, all in very good clean and unmarked condition in very good dust jacket. An old man, in dressing gown and slippers, with open mouth, is gazing through a telescope; while, in an adjoining room, of which the doors are half open, a couple are in the act upon a bed.

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An old man and a girl are swinging in separate swings; the girl's legs, hips and breasts are exposed, and in her head are two large feathers; the old man is very ugly, wears a cocked hat, pigtail, spectacles, and top boots with spurs; his breeches are at his knees, and his belly and member exposed. An old man, who appears at a window, and brandishes a large pair of shears, has disturbed a couple from their pleasures; the young man is just escaping into the adjoining apartment, while the girl stands beside the bed in her shift, with her hands folded over her bosom, and displays shame and regret; her legs are partially bare. One girl is partially reclining on a bed, while another, on one knee, is holding a mirror to her; both have bare arms, and their shifts are above their waists.To the left, behind a screen, sits an old woman asleep before the fire with a bottle and glass under her chair. The girl with her left hand clasps the old man round the buttocks, and with her right handles his member, which is unnaturally large, and its shape quite typical of Rowlandson's style; the girl is bald about her parts.