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"The Empress of Russia Receiving her Brave Guards", by Thomas Rowlandson[1]

Rowlandson, the Caricaturist (Joseph Grego)[2]

French Caricature and the French Revolution, 1789-1799 by James Cuno.

Thomas Rowlandson, "The Contrast" 1792: Edmund Burke wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790, making him an early critic of the French Revolution.

There is hardly any anticlericalism in Rowlandson's bawdy prints. Scenes like "Meditations among the Tombs"[3] are cheeky but good-natured. Might Clio know why there was less anticlericalism in the British caricaturists than in the French caricaturists.

Added 2013: there is of course, A Harlot's Progress

"Modern Antiques", an 1806 caricature by Thomas Rowlandson which satirizes the British enthusiasm for things ancient-Egyptian in the years after Napoleon's military expedition against Egypt.

For example, a woman wrote to the Morning Chronicle newspaper in 1805, complaining that "since this accursed Egyptian style came into fashion... my eldest boy rides on a sphinx instead of a rocking-horse, my youngest has a papboat in the shape of a crocodile, and my husband has built a watercloset in the shape of a pyramid, and has his shirts marked with a lotus."

Meret Oppenheim: Das Frühlingsfest - Exposition E.R.O.S. (Exposition inteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme) - 1959

Politician Charles James Fox is the subject of Thomas Rowlandson's satirical coloured etching The Covent Garden Night Mare[4] (1784). .

Gert Schiff's The Amorous Illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson Cythera Press, 1969 and Kurt von Meier's The Forbidden Erotica of Thomas Rowlandson (1970)