<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Miseries of London [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[approximately 1868?]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"Two burly women, almost naked above the waist, fight vigorously, surrounded by a yelling crowd. The scene is an irregular space surrounded by old-fashioned houses, and crowded with spectators, eager or disgusted. In the foreground (left) an apple-woman's barrow is upset and she sprawls across it to grab the head of a little boy who is collecting apples. Among the crowd are a porter carrying a trunk on his knot, and a woman with a basket of vegetables on her head. Adjacent houses have inscriptions: 'British Gin', 'Licensed Lottery Office Tickets Shares', and (with the sign of three balls) 'Mony Lent on Pledges Gripp Licensed Pawn Brokers'."--British Museum online catalogue</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Six lines of text below title: Being a compulsory spectator and auditor of a brawling and scratching match, between two drunken drabs in consequence of the sudden influx of company by whom you are hemmed in an hundred yards deep ...</dc:description><dc:description>Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 10825 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.</dc:description><dc:description>Plate from: Caricatures drawn &amp; etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &amp;c. [London] : [Field &amp; Tuer], [ca. 1868?]</dc:description><dc:description>Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 124.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>