A picture of misery [graphic]

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Description

Title
A picture of misery [graphic]
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 10 April 1811]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Abstract

"A hideous old miser sits between fire (right) and table (left) snuffing a candle; he ignores a man seated opposite him, who registers agonized entreaty. Both are three-quarter length. On the table is a large book: 'Table of Interest'. Over the chimney-piece is a placard, the right side cut off by the margin of the design. 'Stock Ex[change], Bank Stock, 3 Pr Cents, Imperial [Loan], Omnium [cf. British Museum Satires No. 11716], South Sea, Exchequer [Bills], Lottery Tick[ets]'. A portrait of the miser above his head shows him gleefully weighing coin, with money-bags beside him. The room is small and poverty-stricken with a casement window, and a skeleton-like rat scampering on the window-ledge. Through an open door (left) is seen the profile of a grotesquely malevolent old hag. ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state

Description
Title etched below image.
Later state; date has been burnished from imprint statement.
Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, April 10, 1811. Cf. No. 11804 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: Iron was his chest, iron was his door; his hand was iron, and his heart was more.
Plate numbered "70" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 204.
Leaf 18 in volume 2.
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
Collection Title
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1811
Etchings England London 1811
Material
etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1811
England > London > 1811
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12852273
Object ID (OID)
16192497

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