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

Creator:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[9 October 1809]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm

Notes:

"Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint.
Date of publication from Grego.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Plate numbered "257" in upper right corner.
Reissue, with altered plate number and with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate, of a print published 9 October 1807 by Thomas Tegg. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.10.09.01.
Title etched below image.

Abstract:

"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title (partially damaged) of the design: '[getting up] early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, ta[ble, shovel, tongues,] poker and fender huddled into the middle of the room. Carpet tossed backward. - floor newly washed, windows wide open. - bee[s 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:

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

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1809.
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. 10

Orbis Record:

12893649

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11793003

Citation:

Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 166

Extent of digitization:

Complete folder digitized.

OID:

11792950

PID:

digcoll:3997117