The miser's prayer!! [graphic]

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Title: The miser's prayer!! [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [10 February 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Feby. 10, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Abstract: A thin man in shabby clothes, kneels in prayer before a candle on a chair, bedcurtains on either side of the chair; his toes through his worn shoes. The window panes in his room are broken
Description: Title printed in letterpress below image.
Three paragraphs of letterpress below title: Plutus thou God of wealth and riches, deign to listen to thy humble votary...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 44.3 x 26 cm.
Mounted on leaf 64 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
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.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 42.8 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Prayers
Stipple engravings England London 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Broadsides England London 1801
Material: etching and stipple engraving ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Poverty
Prayer
Subjects: Poverty
Prayer
England > London > 1801
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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