Miseries of human life [graphic]

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Description

Title
Miseries of human life [graphic]
Alternative Title
As you are quietly walking along in the vicinity of Smithfield on market day ...
Contributor
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Published / Created
[1808?]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Title etched above image.
Two lines of quoted text below design: "As you are quietly walking along in the vicinity of Smithfield on market day finding yourself suddenly obliged though your dancing days have "been long over, to lead outsides, cross over, foot it, and a variety of other steps and figures, with mad bulls for your partners.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Plate numbered "301" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Also issued separately.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Leaf 1 in volume 5.
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 34.5 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
Collection Title
V. 5. 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) J Whatman 1822
Material
etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1808
England > London > 1808
J Whatman > 1822
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8793196
Object ID (OID)
16192810

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