Miseries of human life [graphic]

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Title: Miseries of human life [graphic]
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.
Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
One line of quoted text below image: "During the endless time that you are kept waiting in a carriage while the ladies are shopping having your impatience soothed by the setting of a saw close at your ear."
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Leaf 61 in volume 1.
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 : sheet 25.1 x 36.9 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
Collection Title: V. 1. 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) Basted Mill
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1808
England > London > 1808
Basted Mill
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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