Moritz Gallery

The Man who Threw a Snowball at St. Moritz

An aghast crowd of skiiers and holidaymakers looking towards a dejected snowball-thrower who is trudging away into the distance. St. Moritz was a popular skiing destination for the upper classes during the 20's and 30's and the aspirational atmosphere of the resort is captured brilliantly by Bateman's illustration

© Estate of H M Bateman/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

Gentleman giving out medicines to beggars, 18th century

English gentleman dispensing his medicine cabinet to beggars at Ivry-sur Seine, 18th century. He gives aerated salts to a one-armed soldier, Bruchsal elixir to an old woman, and magnetic drops, Glauber salts and dry biscuit. Liberality to infirm beggars on leaving Yvri. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, translated and abridged from Moritz August von Thummel's Reise in die mitt??glichen Provinzen van Frankreich im Jahre 1785'??1786, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1821

© Florilegius

English gentleman at the tomb of Petrarch's muse, Laura

English gentleman at the tomb of Petrarch's muse, Laura de Sade, Laure des Noves, in the Chapelle des Sade, convent of the Cordeliers, Avignon. At the tomb of Laura. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, translated and abridged from Moritz August von Thummel's Reise in die mitt??glichen Provinzen van Frankreich im Jahre 1785'??1786, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1821

© Florilegius