Miseries of travelling [graphic]

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Title: Miseries of travelling [graphic]
Alternative Title: Miseries of traveling
Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him ...
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1807] and [printed approximately 1980?]
Publication Place: London and England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "An old Parson, of Dr. Syntax type, falls into the water from his horse which rolls in the stream. His hat, wig, and 'Funeral Sermon' are in the water, where a dog chases geese. On a rustic bridge (right) two women and a child are watching in alarm, a milk-pail falls from the head of one of them. In the background (left) two horses gallop up a slope pursued by a dog, one rider loses his seat, the other his hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Text below title: Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him on the road, proceeds very coolly to repose himself in the middle of the pond, without taking you at all into his counsel, or paying the slightest attention to your remonstrances.
Later state, with border added. For an earlier state lacking border, see no. 10837 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 121.
Late-20th century restrike on modern paper, similar to others from the same collection bearing pencil annotations suggesting printing dates around 1980. The copper plate would have been in the possession of the successor Leadenhall Press in England at the time, according to Nicholas J.S. Knowles.
Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806; see no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8.
Provenance: Ronald Paulson; October 2024.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 13.8 x 19.9 cm, on sheet 24.4 x 29.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State with border added].
Language: English