A picture of misery [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[not before 10 April 1811]eng"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 stateTitle 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.