Miseries personified [graphic]

Description

Title: Miseries personified [graphic]
Contributor: Beresford, James, 1764-1840, artist.
Published / Created: [1 March 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published March 1st, 1807 by William Miller, Albemarle Street
Abstract: "An old man sitting on a stool, holding a mug in his left hand and spoon in his right, his eyes squeezed tightly shut suggesting that he is blind, his right hand and legs affected by a condition which has reduced them in size."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint and portions of statement of responsibility.
Description based impression in the Library of Congress, PC 1 - 10696.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 290 x 153 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Stipple engravings England London 1807
Etchings England 1807
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Older people
People with disabilities
Stools
Drinking vessels
Subjects: Older people
People with disabilities
Stools
Drinking vessels
England > 1807
England > London > 1807

Access: Public
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