Comments on: Thomas Rowlandson’s Lower Orders https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/23/thomas-rowlandsons-lower-orders-2/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 23 Sep 2017 18:50:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Christine Gingerich https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/23/thomas-rowlandsons-lower-orders-2/#comment-1170240 Sat, 23 Sep 2017 18:50:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160438#comment-1170240 You know I first found you when I researching information on my Great Grandmother who was and orphan then a British Home Child. (Yes I found out all the information I sought. Turns out her mother died in Childbirth in 1887 when Annie was three and her father kept the two older children who could work but what does a man do with a 3 year old daughter. Hence Annie MacPherson.) Anyway since then you have taught me so much about the London of yore or lore which ever. Thank you for enriching my mind and life.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/23/thomas-rowlandsons-lower-orders-2/#comment-1170198 Sat, 23 Sep 2017 11:49:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160438#comment-1170198 Greetings from Boston,

GA, I always enjoy seeing the Rowlandson’s sketches along with those of his contemporaries George Cruikshank and James Gillray. I guess the latter two tended more towards political satire.

Well said – “Rude, rambunctious, horny and venal as rats, these are Londoners that we can all recognise and, even though Rowlandson’s vision is not a flattering view of humanity, his lack of sentimentality endears us to his subjects in spite of their flawed natures.”

Human nature doesn’t change…

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/23/thomas-rowlandsons-lower-orders-2/#comment-1170177 Sat, 23 Sep 2017 08:41:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160438#comment-1170177 The lower orders rock!

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