File:Rowlandson-modern-antiques-Egyptomania-1806.jpg

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Artist	Thomas Rowlandson  (1757–1827)      Description English painter, drawer, etcher and illustrator Date of birth/death 13 July 1757  21 April 1827  Location of birth/death Old Jewry London Work location London, Paris (1774), France, Germany, Italy, Rotterdam (ca. 1794), Amsterdam (ca. 1794), Netherlands (ca. 1794) Authority file : Q318584 VIAF: 56672964 ISNI: 0000000121341830 ULAN: 500006930 LCCN: n50022330 NLA: 35465846 WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q318584
Date	1806 date QS:P571,+1806-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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"Modern Antiques", an 1806 caricature by Thomas Rowlandson which satirizes the British enthusiasm for things ancient-Egyptian in the years after Napoleon's military expedition against Egypt.

For example, a woman wrote to the Morning Chronicle newspaper in 1805, complaining that "since this accursed Egyptian style came into fashion... my eldest boy rides on a sphinx instead of a rocking-horse, my youngest has a papboat in the shape of a crocodile, and my husband has built a watercloset in the shape of a pyramid, and has his shirts marked with a lotus."

Thomas Rowlandson  (1757–1827)
	Description	English painter, drawer, etcher and illustrator
	Date of birth/death	13 July 1757	21 April 1827
	Location of birth/death	Old Jewry	London
	Work location	London, Paris (1774), France, Germany, Italy, Rotterdam (ca. 1794), Amsterdam (ca. 1794), Netherlands (ca. 1794)
	Authority file	: Q318584 VIAF: 56672964 ISNI: 0000000121341830 ULAN: 500006930 LCCN: n50022330 NLA: 35465846 WorldCat

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