Miseries of social life [graphic] / Rowlandson.
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Description
- Title
- Miseries of social life [graphic] / Rowlandson.
- Alternative Title
- Escorting four or five country cousins, on their first importation into London ...
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership. - Copyright Date
- [1808]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Abstract
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"A fashionably dressed young man leads a plain woman under an archway in the Tower of London. They are followed by a young man between two girls, plainly dressed and unsophisticated, and a little boy who gapes at an elegant sentry (left); there are also two beefeaters. One girl points to a door (right) inscribed 'Entrance to the Wild Beast[s]'."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
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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.
Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
Text below title: Escorting four or five country cousins, on their first importation into London from the Terra Incognita of England, to the Lions the Wax Work, the Monuments &c &c.
Title etched below image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 11 x 14 cm, on sheet 17.9 x 24.7 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- still image
- Genre
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Book illustrations.
Etchings--England--London--1808.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1808. - Subject (Name)
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Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
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Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10854
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 120
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12916093
- Object ID (OID)
- 11792036
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