Rowlandson - George Henry Harlow - 1814 Pencil (National Portrait Gallery, London, UK)
Rowlandson - John Raphael Smith c.1795 (British Museum, London, UK)
On January 1, 1799, Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834) published the first of eight plates designed by Thomas Rowlandson of the Cries of London. Rowlandson’s ink drawings were etched and printed by the Swiss artist H Merke (fl.1799-1820) and hand colored in Ackermann’s shop on the Strand. The cost was two shillings and six pence colored or one shilling and six pence uncolored. Rowlandson continued to add to the Cries and in 1820, the complete set of fifty-four prints was published under the title of Characteristic Sketches of the Lower Orders intended as a companion to the New Picture of London, consisting of fifty-four plates, neatly coloured. This was printed in London for Samuel Leigh on the Strand.
Additional reference links to Rowlandson and his art may be found HERE.
