Miseries of human life [graphic]
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16192723
Description
- Title
- Miseries of human life [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Contributor
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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.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 13 in volume 4. - 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 24.6 x 35 cm, on sheet 25 x 37 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
- Collection Title
- V. 4. 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 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
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8789731
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192723
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