Miseries of human life [graphic] / Woodward del. ; Rowlandson scul.

Creator:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[9 October 1807]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.4 x 34 cm

Notes:

"Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Plate numbered '28' in upper right corner.
Title etched below image.

Abstract:

"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title: 'Getting up early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, table, shovel, tongues, poker and fender huddled into the middle of the room. Carpet tossed backward. - floor newly washed, windows wide open. - bees wax brush and ru]bber in one corner - brooms, mops and pails in another - and a dingy Drab on her knees before an empty grate -'. A man arrested at the door of a room disarrayed by cleaning, wearing a dressing gown and with a gouty slippered foot, his hands held out warily in front of him, his teeth clenched together and his nose dripping; at left, kneeling in front of the grate, a stout and grotesque maid scrubbing the floor; a bust portrait of a man above the mantelpiece, looking disapprovingly down on the maid; cat and caged bird at far right."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Anger.
Birdcages.
Cats.
Domestic life.
Housework.
Interiors.
Sweeping & dusting.
Women domestics.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1807.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1807.

Format:

Image

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8

Orbis Record:

8774615

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11792747

Citation:

Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 408

Extent of digitization:

Complete folder digitized.

OID:

11791943

PID:

digcoll:3996890