Miseries of human life [graphic]

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Title: Miseries of human life [graphic]
Alternative Title: Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him ...
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
Description: Title etched above image.
Two lines of quoted text below image: "Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him on the road proceeds very cooly to repose himself in the middle of the pond, "without taking you at all into his counsel, or paying the slightest attention to your vivid remonstrances on the subject."
Publisher from Krumbhaar.
Date of publication based on date assigned to a similar print with the same title and signatures. Cf. No. 11150 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate numbered "287" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
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 : plate mark 24.3 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 808.00.00.23+
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 1808
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1808
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

Access: Public
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