More miseries page 136 / [graphic]

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Title: More miseries page 136 / [graphic]
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.
Published / Created: [1 April 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. April 1st, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of 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: Title etched above image; page number etched above upper right corner of image.
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 ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. XIII.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) E & Co. 1809
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1807
England > London > 1807
E & Co. > 1809
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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