Miseries of travelling [graphic]

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Description

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.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 16.1 x 13.4 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 32 of volume 9 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 : plate mark 16.1 x 13.7 cm, on sheet 19 x 16 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

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

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Identifiers

Catalog Record
8601882
Object ID (OID)
11792002

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