Miseries of games, sports, &c. 3. Dialogue / [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist[1 January 1807]eng"A skating scene. A man with legs widely spread poised on the back of his skates, throws up his arms and is about to crash backwards; his hat flies in the air. Beside him (left) a man falls through the ice. A young man pushing a woman in a chair, absorbed in the falling man, is about propel her into the hole. A stout man staggers wildly on one heel, kicked by a military officer (right) skating rapidly to the right A little boy with a broom grins at the disasters. In the background (left), under a bare wind-swept tree a man sits to have his skates adjusted. Two women look on."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Text below title: In skaiting, slipping in such a manner that your legs start off in this unaccomodating posture, from which, however, you are soon relieved by tumbling forwards on your nose, or backwards on your skull ...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.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of page number from upper right. Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum."Page 43"--Upper right corner.Watermark, mostly trimmed: J. Wha[tman] 18[...?].Mounted on leaf 33 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.