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Miseries of travelling
Title
Miseries of travelling [graphic] / Rowlandson 1807.
Publication
[London] : [R. Ackermann], [1807]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 13.7 x 20 cm, on sheet 16.5 x 25 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Text below title: On packing up your clothes for your journey, because your servant is a fool, the burning fever into which you are thrown when after all your standing, stamping, kneeling, tugging and kicking, the lid of your trunk refuses to approach within a yard of the lock.
Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806. See no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"A bedroom interior. An elderly man kneels beside a chest, trying to shut the lid. A very fat woman stands on it, supporting herself against the end of the curtained bed, another sits on it. An untidy servant, gaping and grinning, stands holding a broken candle, pouring grease over his master. On a table is a tray of coffee-things, with a cat lapping from a bowl; a dog sits on a chair; a pair of top-boots stands ready."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
On packing up your clothes for your journey, because your servant is a fool ...
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 30, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10826
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 124
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Book illustrations.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1807.
Etchings - England - London - 1807.
Watermarks (Paper) - J. Whatman Turkey Mills - 1818.
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