Miseries of the country [graphic] / Rowlandson 1807.

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Description

Title
Miseries of the country [graphic] / Rowlandson 1807.
Alternative Title
While deeply, delightfully, and as you hope safely engaged at home in the morning ...
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
Copyright Date
[1807]
Publication Place
[London]
Abstract

"An oafish footman (left), tilting forward a chair, shows in a party of country visitors to a fashionable young couple. The room is in Strawberry Hill Gothic with a high French window wide open and giving on a garden. Portfolios lie against a Gothic cabinet on which is a sloping stand for prints. The hostess receives her visitors, extending her left hand; her husband makes a gesture of annoyance. An old crone with a young woman, two children, and two loutish men advance from the door (left)."--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: While deeply, delightfully, and as you hope safely engaged at home in the morning, after peremptory orders of denial to all comers whomsoever, to be suddenly surprized through the treachery or folly of your servant by an inroad from a party ...
Title etched below image.
Extent
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 11.5 x 17.6 cm, on sheet 14.3 x 19.2 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. 10824
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 123-4

Identifiers

Orbis Record
12915762
Object ID (OID)
11792035

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