[Study drawings of monsters, men, and acrobats]

Drawing shows the head of a monster with crossed horns, two nude men balancing on their hands on the backs of dragon-like animals, and a female acrobat, standing on her hands, holding a vessel in her toes and handing it to a seated woman. Rowlandson was an artist, illustrator, and caricaturist, sometimes accused of being "coarse and indelicate."

Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Unprocessed in WOOD/Rowlandson.10
Title from inventory; no date in inventory/ww
Source: Spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk ljr
Not signed. Designation of artist from collector.

Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors, a popular artist in the Regency period in England.