Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ^ had been evolvedunder the stress of genuine passion. He did not long survivethe fall of Napoleon, the target of his most venomous satire,and his last years were clouded by The pictorial satire of Thomas Rowlandson was wider in its scope, less violent, but also less vigorous than Gillrays. Indeed,his best works have little relation to caricature. The pair ofconfidential young ladies on a
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ^ had been evolvedunder the stress of genuine passion. He did not long survivethe fall of Napoleon, the target of his most venomous satire,and his last years were clouded by The pictorial satire of Thomas Rowlandson was wider in its scope, less violent, but also less vigorous than Gillrays. Indeed,his best works have little relation to caricature. The pair ofconfidential young ladies on a sofa, for example, in the favouritedrawing called Harmony, have an elegance that is akin toGainsboroughs art, and the suggestion of kinship is furtherstrengthened by his brilliant drawing of their elaboratelydressed hair. He came of a middle-class stock, and at sixteenentered the Academy. He, however, soon quitted London forParis, where his aunt lived. There he received an excellenttraining, and he returned to England a complete master of histrade. In London he began seriously enough: had a studio in 780 ENGLANDS STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. [1802 Wardoiir Street, and sent portraits and figure subjects to theAcademy. But later on he gave himself up to the playful andhumorous delineation which made his name. His sketching atall times is brilliant and decisive: he is a master of outline; hisfio-ures are full of movement and frequently of grace. Add tothis that he was the most prolific artist of them all. Less en-grossed Avith politics, or with the chroiiiqiie scandaleiise of themost scandalous period, than his contemporaries, his drawingsare a mine of wealth to the student of manners. Racing, hunt-inf, coaching, the barracks, the counting-house, the colleges ofOxford, the theatre, the coffee-house, the fencing-room, dog-fisrhts, fairs, levees, the cries of London, hunt dinners—all thehimiours of the town and country came with equal ease to satire is, as a rule, of a g
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