Miseries of travelling [graphic]

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Title: Miseries of travelling [graphic]
Alternative Title: At an inn, after pulling off your boots, the option of going barefoot the rest of the evening ...
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Ackermann
Description: Title etched below image.
Five lines of descriptive text below title: At an inn, after pulling off your boots, the option of going barefoot the rest of the evening or expatiating in a pair of boundless slippers ...
Date of publication based on similar prints with the same title and likely from the same series. Cf. Nos. 10836 and 10837 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Probably 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 no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. XIII.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 16.1 x 13.7 cm, on sheet 19 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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