Thomas Rowlandson
English | 1757-1827

Miseries of Bathing
1808

After bathing in the river – on returning to the bank for your clothes, finding that a laughing thief has taken a sudden fancy to the cut of every article of your dress.

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Hand-coloured print, showing a couple lying asleep in bed, snuggled up closely together and apparently snoring. Their clothes are draped around the room. Pinned on the wall by the bed is the verse 'Hush every breeze | Let nothing move | My Celia sleeps | and dreams of love.' The title underneath reads 'The bassoon with a french horn accompanyment'.

Our Woodward collection also contains works by some of his contemporaries, such as this print by Thomas #Rowlandson from 1811. What better way to celebrate enduring love than by gently - or not so gently - snoring together 😴

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“Bathers in a Landscape.” Thomas Rowlandson (British; 1756–1827). Watercolor with pen & brown and gray ink, over graphite, on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn.

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“Summer Amusement at Margate, or a Peep at the Mermaids.” Thomas Rowlandson (British; 1757–1827). Hand-colored etching, 1813. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014.

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