Miseries miscellaneous [graphic] : 12. Dialogue / Rowlandson fecit.

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Title
Miseries miscellaneous [graphic] : 12. Dialogue / Rowlandson fecit.
Alternative Title
Necessity of sending a verbal message of the utmost consequence ...
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.
Published / Created
1807 January 1
Copyright Date
[1 January 1807]
Publication Place
[London]
Publisher
R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract

"Two ladies, fashionable and pretty, stand by the door of a neo-Gothic lodge or gate-house. One addresses a gardener who tugs at his hair; two elderly men (left) walk off to the left."--British Museum online catalogue.

Description
"Page 287"--Upper right corner.
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: The necessity of sending a verbal message of the utmost consequence, by an ass, who, you plainly perceive, will forget (or rather has already forgotten) every word you have been saying.
Title etched below image.
Extent
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 11.2 x 17.1 cm, on sheet 13.9 x 19.3 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.
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. 10831
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 121

Identifiers

Orbis Record
12915027
Object ID (OID)
11792029

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