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...ships, the rigs and ragamuffins as a sharp eye and a keen mind can acquire. The result encourages young (and old) to brood upon details and be delighted by the beauty of black ink and watercolor washes that blend a Delacroix-like delicacy with the liveliness of Thomas Rowlandson. Erie Canal follows a barge through Clinton's Ditch (circa 1850), seen in four seasons and drawn down to the last mule harness and quayside bollard...
...Ronald Searle. 138 pages. Pantheon. $7.95. Baron Munchausen became prince of prevaricators in 1785 and has reigned ever since. In this latest edition, a cherry tree blossoms again between the antlers of a stag, etc. Ronald Searle competes well with such celebrated previous illustrators as Gustave Dore and Rowlandson...
Being so much in demand. Rowlandson often worked too fast for quality. But at his best, his strokes were sure, his delicate palette always in harmony. He drew whores and rakes, rich men with the gout, fortune hunters and repulsive dowagers...
Where a Hogarth would rage, Rowlandson could not help smiling...
...evils but its foibles. The French Barracks, with one officer staring lecherously at the bosom of the girl cutting his toenails while another officer preens before a mirror, is a hilarious lampoon of Gallic lust and vanity. In The Return, Portsmouth Point and The Great Hall (for which Rowlandson farmed out the background, did only the figures), the satirist turned on his native land to poke fun at the rowdiness of the toughs and the smugness of the toffs. But beyond the brawling and posturing lie England's manicured countryside, its proud fleet and its stately halls-eloquent testimony...