Regency Folk Customs

'The Harvest Home' by Rowlandson

copyright: member of The Taborers Society

a girl playing the pipe and tabor together with a fiddler and a guitar player at the front of a harvest home procession. They are walking to the barn where there will be food and dancing to celebrate the end of the harvest.

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Thomas Rowlandson was born in London, England in 1756. He became one the of most famous political lampoonists and caricaturists of his age. There was little censorship at the time and some 'vicious' cartoons were drawn of political figures: even Royalty did not escape. Many of his other drawings depict various aspects of the ordinary life of the people. He died in 1827.

 

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