Miseries of travelling [graphic] / Rowlandson 1807.

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Description

Title
Miseries of travelling [graphic] / Rowlandson 1807.
Alternative Title
On packing up your clothes for your journey, because your servant is a fool ...
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Contributor
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Copyright Date
[1807]
Publication Place
[London]
Publisher
1807
Abstract

"A bedroom interior. An elderly man kneels beside a chest, trying to shut the lid. A very fat woman stands on it, supporting herself against the end of the curtained bed, another sits on it. An untidy servant, gaping and grinning, stands holding a broken candle, pouring grease over his master. On a table is a tray of coffee-things, with a cat lapping from a bowl; a dog sits on a chair; a pair of top-boots stands ready."--British Museum online catalogue.

Description
Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806. See no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
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.
Text below title: On packing up your clothes for your journey, because your servant is a fool, the burning fever into which you are thrown when after all your standing, stamping, kneeling, tugging and kicking, the lid of your trunk refuses to approach within a yard of the lock.
Title etched below image.
Extent
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 13.7 x 19.7 cm, on sheet 16.5 x 24.7 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
still image
Genre
Book illustrations.
Etchings--England--London--1807.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1807.
Watermarks (Paper)--J. Whatman Turkey Mills--1818.--CtY-BR
Subject (Name)
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.

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Rights
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Citation
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10826
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 124

Identifiers

Orbis Record
12903486
Object ID (OID)
11791999

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