Keywords: Rowlandson-modern-antiques-Egyptomania-1806.jpg 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 Creator Thomas Rowlandson PD-old-100 18th-century caricatures Engravings by Thomas Rowlandson 1800s fashion 1806 cartoons Kisses in art Egyptomania |