Kristoffer's Menagerie - thomas rowlandson

This blog is a collection or archive of my thoughts and progress on my PhD. My research looks at animals as objects in eighteenth-century Britain. I hope this blog helps me keep track of my thoughts and records my descent into insanity as I write-up my thesis this year.

I have become interested in animal rights and veganism so my thoughts on these will appear from time to time. Recipes too, well only those that don't contain tofu or seitan.

thomas rowlandson

Today I’ve been thinking about eighteenth-century caricature and political satire. Rowlandson’s physignomy will be useful for charting the use of animal as symbols.