Thomas Rowlandson was so prolific they could have papered the walls of China with his work. So ran one obituary when he died in 1827 in the same spot where he had lived for the whole of his 70 years, ...

Most local schoolchildren know the story of Mary Rowlandson – the pastor’s wife who, in the winter of 1676 near the end of King Philip’s War, was captured by Nipmunk and Narragansett Indians as ...

Next to his work, which was turning out drawings and watercolors, Thomas Rowlandson liked to drink; and next to drinking, he liked to gamble. It was said of him that he once stood at a gaming table ...

Thomas Rowlandson was a British artist born in 1756 and passed away in 1827. He was a prominent caricaturist, painter, and printmaker known for his humorous depictions of contemporary society, ...

On this day in 1676, warriors from the Nashaway tribe, part of the Wampanoag Nation, sacked Lancaster, Massachusetts, killing the town’s adult males and taking captive its women and children. Mary ...

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High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson, Royal Collection Critical of the Prince of Wales and his suitability to rule, this shows him being guided to a cracked, damaged throne by a ...