Miseries of human life [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Miseries of human life [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Treading in a beau trap while in the act of gaily advancing your foot ...
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Contributor
-
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher. - Published / Created
- [ca. 1810]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Thomas Tegg
- Abstract
-
A beau in greeting a young lady accidentally bespatters her with mud
- Description
-
Title etched above image.
Four lines of quoted text below image: "Treading in a beau trap while on the act of gaily advancing your "foot, to make a bow to some charming woman of your acquaintance ...
Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum online catalogue; the same identification is made tentatively by Krumbhaar.
Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate.
Publisher from earlier state with the imprint: London, Pub. by T. Tegg, Feb. [...?]. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0720.40.
Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue. Krumbhaar suggests a date of 1821 for the print's publication in Caricature magazine.
Plate numbered "264" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Watermark: Charles Wise. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiii, p. 12.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 24.2 x 34.4 cm, on sheet 25 x 37 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 821.00.00.01+
- Collection Title
- V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1810
Etchings England London 1810
Watermarks (Paper) Charles Wise
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
-
England > 1810
England > London > 1810
Charles Wise
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9308817
- Object ID (OID)
- 10969079
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