Scope and Contents A group of men sit around a table and gorge themselves on feast, some fighting the others for food. A man seated at the head of the table at left lifts a large goblet to his mouth. Two men, apparently late to the feast, enter through the door at left with shocked expressions. Inscription: in plate lower left: 'Rowlandson Del.'; lower right: 'Pub.d June 4 1811 by Tho.s Rowlandson No. 1 James St. Adelphi'; bottom center: 'A TWO O CLOCK ORDINARY.' Description from the Metropolitan Museum, New...

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View of a mountainous landscape, the sea in the distance at left; several figures gathered in the doorway of a partly ruined building in the foreground at right, including a man playing a harp and a woman seated on the ground, singing a ballad from a songsheet. 1799, Etching. Description from the British Museum.

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From 'The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams'. Inscription: in plate above image right: 'P. 5'; below image center: 'Published as the Act directs by J. Sibbald 1792'; lower right: 'Rowlandson Inv. et Fec.' Description from the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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Two Londoners in riding clothes stare at an old barmaid who enters the room with a jug of ale.

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Dr. Syntax in the Wrong Lodging House, plate in the book 'The Third Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of a Wife', etching and aquatint (hand-colored). Description from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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A pretty woman sits in a neo-Gothic hall facing five elderly suitors, a sixth, a doctor, just behind her. They are colonel, baronet, parson, lawyer, and quaker. She intends to choose one, but Death leans over he chair, seen only by a servant who stands on tiptoe by the doorway. Below: 'It is in vain that you decide: Death claims you as his destin’d Bride.' Description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. XI.

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Death welcomes an aged man supported on crutches who enters the door of a Mausoleum shaded by trees. Outside are a handsome young man and a pretty girl who make their way to a waiting coach with liveried servants. Below: 'Your crabbed Dad is just gone home; And now we look for joys to come.' Description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. XI.

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Inscription: in plate, below image left: 'Drawn by Rowlandson'; center 'QUAE GENUS, IN THE SERVICE OF SR. JEFFERY GOURMAND.' Date trimmed but plate probably published Aug. 1, 1821 by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. Plate removed from 'The History of Johnny Quae Genus. The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax: A Poem', by the Author of The Three Tours. Text by William Combe, illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson. London: R. Ackermann, 1822. Description from the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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Inscription: in plate, below image left: 'Drawn by Rowlandson'; center 'QUAE GENUS WITH A PORTRAIT PAINTER.' Date trimmed but plate probably published Sept. 1, 1821 by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. Plate removed from 'The History of Johnny Quae Genus. The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax: A Poem', by the Author of The Three Tours. Text by William Combe, illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson. London: R. Ackermann, 1822. Description from the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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Inscription: in plate, below image left: 'Drawn by Rowlandson'; center 'QUAE GENUS WITH A SPENDTHRIFT. / [date trimmed]' Plate removed from 'The History of Johnny Quae Genus. The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax: A Poem', by the Author of The Three Tours. Text by William Combe, illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson. London: R. Ackermann, 1822. Description from the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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Inscription: in plate, below image left: 'Drawn by Rowlandson'; center 'QAE GENUS AT A SHEEP-SHEARING.' Date trimmed but plate probably published Feb. 1, 1822 by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. Plate removed from 'The History of Johnny Quae Genus. The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax: A Poem', by the Author of The Three Tours. Text by William Combe, illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson. London: R. Ackermann, 1822. Description from the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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Drawn & etched by H. Alken, Esq. i.e. Henry Thomas Alken (12 October 1785 – 7 April 1851) not Thomas Rowlandson. London. Published by Jones & Co. Sept. 29, 1821. 'Tom and Bob..' may refer to characters in 'Real Life in London, or the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall through the Metropolis...' by an Amateur (London: Jones & Co., 1822)

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Inscription: in plate, below image center: 'THE INN AT MARSEILLES / Pub.d at R. ACKERMANN'S REPOSITORY OF ARTS &c Pub.d Oct.r 1 1820. Description from the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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Plate removed from book 'The Tour of Doctor Syntax Through London, or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis. A Poem' by Doctor Syntax. London, J. Johnston, 1820. An imitation of the various tours of Dr Syntax written by William Combe and illustrated by Rowlandson. Artist may be Isaac Robert Cruikshank.

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Plate removed from book 'The Tour of Doctor Syntax Through London, or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis. A Poem' by Doctor Syntax. London, J. Johnston, 1820. An imitation of the various tours of Dr Syntax written by William Combe and illustrated by Rowlandson. Artist may be Isaac Robert Cruikshank.

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Tom Raw, the Griffin: a burlesque poem, in twelve cantos. Illustrated by twenty-five engravings, descriptive of the adventures of a cadet in the East India Company’s service, from the period of his quitting England to his obtaining a staff situation in India / by a civilian and an officer on the Bengal establishment. Published in a collection by Ackermann, a year after Rowlandson's death. Description from Yale University.

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Another entry of Tom Raw, the Griffin: a burlesque poem in twelve cantos.