Misiries of high life [graphic]

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Title: Misiries of high life [graphic]
Alternative Title: Miseries of high life
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1808]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: March 1st, 1808, Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Two lines of text below title: Briskly stooping to pick up a ladys fan at the same moment, when two other gentlemen are doing the same and so making a cannon with your head against both of theirs and without being the happy man after all. Miseries of human life.
Printseller's announcement within design: Price one shilling cold.
Cf. Later reissued without imprint statement, no. 11107, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 8.
Temporary local subject terms: Coxcombs -- Male costume 1808 -- Female costume 1808.
Provenance: Sotheby's Lot 238 [Car. II] to Seven Gables; July 2, 1968.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25.2 x 33.5 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1808
Etchings England London 1808
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subjects: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1808
England > London > 1808

Access: Public
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