Miseries of human life [graphic]

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Title: Miseries of human life [graphic]
Alternative Title: Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [1808?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Thomas Tegg
Abstract: "A fashionably dressed man (left) rises from his chair on which is a snarling cat with a kitten. A young woman sitting facing him throws up her arms; both scream. An old man (right) wearing a night-cap looks up from his book in anxious inquiry. A little boy falls on his back. A dog barks."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
One line of quoted text below image: "Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair!!"
Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "237" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
Watermark: Charles Wise.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.6 x 35 cm, on sheet 25 x 37 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 808.00.00.13+
Collection Title: V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1808
Etchings England London 1808
Watermarks (Paper) Charles Wise
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1808
England > London > 1808
Charles Wise
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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