More miseries [graphic] : page 136 / Rowlandson fecit.

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Title: More miseries [graphic] : page 136 / Rowlandson fecit.
Alternative Title: At an inn, going into a bed too short with a wooden leg ...
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Published / Created: 1807 April 1
Copyright Date: [1 April 1807]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: "A man in bed kicks wildly, clutching a bed-post, as a chambermaid tries to pull out his wooden leg. A second chamber-maid flourishes a lighted candle."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: 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 image: At an inn, going into a bed too short with a wooden leg which you were too fatigued to unstrap, drawing up the living one, going to sleep with the other sticking out at the bottom ...
Title etched above image; page number etched above upper right corner of image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 10 x 15 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1807.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1807.
Watermarks (Paper)--E & Co.--1809.--CtY-BR
Subject (Name): Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10849
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 123