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Misiries of high life

Title
Misiries of high life [graphic] / Woodward del. ; Rowlandson scul.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, [not before 1 March 1808]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 23.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 25 x 37 cm
Medium
wove paper
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Coxcombs -- Male costume, 1808 -- Female costume, 1808.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Later state; place and date of publication have been burnished from beginning of imprint statement.
Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "London, March 1st, 1808, Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside." Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 808.03.01.01.1+.
Two lines of text below title: Briskly stooping to pick up a ladys fan at the same moment, when two other gentlemen are doing the same and so making a cannon with your head against both of theirs, and this without being the happy man after all. Miseries of Human Life.
Plate numbered "222" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling could."--Lower left corner of design.
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left.
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
"An ugly coxcomb leeringly hands a fan to one of two ladies walking off to the right. Behind (left), the heads of three stooping men collide. On the extreme left is the Prince of Wales, opera-hat under his arm, facing a woman, immodestly décolletée, who ogles him. Two other men and two women stand near them. The scene is the foyer of a theatre."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Miseries of high life
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2009
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 11107
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 84
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1808.
Etchings - England - London - 1808.
Watermarks (Paper) - Basted Mill.
Watermarks (Paper) - 1817.
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