Miseries domestic [graphic] / Rowlandson 1806.

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Title
Miseries domestic [graphic] / Rowlandson 1806.
Alternative Title
Waking in the middle of the night in a state of raging thirst ...
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
[1806]
Publication Place
[London]
Publisher
1806
Abstract

"A bedroom scene. A fat woman in night-cap and (short) night-dress drinks from a jug taken from the wash-stand (right); the water flows in a stream over her shoulder to the floor. Within a curtained four-poster (left) an aged man is asleep, his feet projecting from under the bed-clothes towards the spectator. On the floor are his hat, shoes, and breeches on which sleeps a cat. There is a high-backed armchair (left) which is also a commode. Over the fireplace hangs a blunderbuss."--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: Waking in the middle of the night in a state of raging thirst, eagerly blundering in the dark to the washing stand and there finding the broad mouthed pitcher which you lift to your lips ...
Title etched below image.
Extent
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 14 x 18.6 cm, on sheet 16.8 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--1806.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1806.
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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Citation
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10822
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 123

Identifiers

Orbis Record
12903555
Object ID (OID)
11792001

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