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

Related Links:

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/brbldl_getrec.asp?fld=img&id=11793003

Notes:

Title etched below image.
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.
Date of publication from Grego.
Plate numbered "257" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
"Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.

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.
Riviere & Son Binding.
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:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Source Title:

Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.

Call Number:

75
W87
807 v.4
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10
Folio 75 W87 807 v.4

Orbis Record:

12893649

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr11206

Citation:

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

OID:

16192476

PID:

digcoll:4046354