List of erotica by Thomas Rowlandson

This is a descriptive list of erotic etchings and drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, based upon the research of Henry Spencer Ashbee published in his three-volume bibliography of curious and uncommon books: Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877), Centuria Librorum Absconditorum (1879) and Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885).

Many of the works cited by Ashbee have been reprinted in Gert Schiff's The Amorous Illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson (1969) and Kurt von Meier's The Forbidden Erotica of Thomas Rowlandson (1970).

The list also includes a few satirical and political caricatures and some which are merely free or indecent but not erotic or obscene.

[16] Titled by Von Meier: "The Old Man",[20] and by Schiff: "The Old Husband".

Examining Samuel Spalding's The Philosophy of Christian Morals (1843) reveals this scene on its fore-edge.

See Orientalism and History of concubinage in the Muslim world.

Titled by Von Meier: "Revenge";[20] by Schiff: "The Ancestor".

[20] Captioned by Schiff: "Sympathy I"[246] Rousseau's "Eloise" (Julie; or, the New Heloise) lies open on the floor.

[379] Pretty Little Games for Young Ladies & Gentlemen.

With Pictures of Good Old English Sports and Pastimes was published by John Camden Hotten in 1845 (1872) as a small quarto containing ten plates and accompanying verses by Rowlandson, who was by then long deceased.

[397][398] The object of this volume was to reproduce, in form of a book, ten erotic plates by Thomas Rowlandson, which had been issued separately, about 1800; each plate is accompanied by a sheet of letter press from the pen of Hotten, and under each are a title and a few doggerel lines, etched, probably the production of either Rowlandson or Hotten.