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More miseries page 148
Title
More miseries [graphic] : page 148.
Publication
[London] : Pub. April 1st, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, [1 April 1807]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 11.3 x 17 cm, on sheet 15.8 x 19 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched above image; page number etched above upper right corner of image.
Text below image: Being nervous and cross examined by Mr. Garrow.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
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 court scene. In the foreground is an oval table round which Counsel are seated. One stands, leaning forward and shouting at a trembling witness who stands chapeau-bras beside the table. Two judges are seated on the left under a Gothic canopy. The jury are in a box stretching across the court, and in front of three Gothic windows. On the right are two tiers of spectators, closely packed."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Being nervous and cross examined by Mr. Garrow
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 28, 2017
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10841
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 122
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1807.
Etchings - England - London - 1807.
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