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Miseries of social life
Title
Miseries of social life [graphic] / Rowlandson.
Publication
[London] : [R. Ackermann], [1808]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 11 x 14 cm, on sheet 17.9 x 25 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Text below title: Escorting four or five country cousins, on their first importation into London from the Terra Incognita of England, to the Lions the Wax Work, the Monuments &c &c.
Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
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 fashionably dressed young man leads a plain woman under an archway in the Tower of London. They are followed by a young man between two girls, plainly dressed and unsophisticated, and a little boy who gapes at an elegant sentry (left); there are also two beefeaters. One girl points to a door (right) inscribed 'Entrance to the Wild Beast[s]'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Escorting four or five country cousins, on their first importation into London ...
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 12, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10854
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 120
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Book illustrations.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1808.
Etchings - England - London - 1808.
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