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Miseries of the country 2. Dialogue
Title
Miseries of the country [graphic] : 2. Dialogue / Rowlandson delt. et sculpt.
Publication
[London] : Pub. Jany. 1, 1806, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, [1 January 1806]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 10.9 x 17 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Text below title: While you are out in a walking-party, after heavy rains, one shoe (suddenly sucked off by the boggy clay; and then, in making a long and desperate stretch (which fails) with the hope of recovering it ...
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.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of page number from upper right. Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum.
"Page 25"--Upper right corner.
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
"Two elderly men, and four ladies, two very fat, are scattered over miry ground, some ankle-deep, and without shoes. One man hold his shoe, a young woman retrieves one from the mud. Four scampering pigs, beset by a dog, and two hissing geese, suggest a farm-yard. Wind aggravates the disaster; an umbrella is blown inside out, a hat and wig fly upwards. One woman has reached a gate (right) to which she clings."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
While you are out in a walking-party, after heavy rains ...
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 01, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10834
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 121
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Book illustrations.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1806.
Etchings - England - London - 1806.
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