Miseries of the country [graphic]

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Title: Miseries of the country [graphic]
Alternative Title: While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex ...
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1807] and [printed approximately 1980?]
Publication Place: London and England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Men in various stages of drunkenness sit at a dinner table while others are passed out on the floor. One man in topboots dances on the table as he waves his hat and a bottle. Several of the men of the party are passed out in their chairs or have fallen on the floor. An obese parson leans against the wall as he vomits. Several of them are wearing hunting hats; on the wall are antlers and a hunting-piece
Description: Title etched below image.
Text below title: While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex being under under the necessity of getting dead drunk every day to save your life. Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.
Later state, with border added. For an earlier state lacking border, see no. 10828 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 124.
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 19.8 cm, on sheet 21.8 x 28.4 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State with border added].
Language: English