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" In art, immorality cannot exist.
Art is always sacred"
August Rodin
Thomas Rowlandson
b
London, 14 July 1756 or 1757; d London, 21 April 1827.
English caricaturist, watercolourist, draughtsman and engraver. Although he is commonly thought of as a satirist, most of his drawings are gently humorous, and in some cases objective, records of urban and rustic life. With the exception of a small number of topographical drawings, they are characterized by an abundance of picaresque incidents, whether robust or sentimental, and have much in common with the novels of Laurence Sterne and Henry Fielding, which Rowlandson ill
