The dead alive! [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmakerJuly 1795.eng"A couple embracing on a couch at right are interrupted by the appearance at left of a grotesque, stout, bespectacled woman holding up a groaning moribund man wearing a shroud-like nightshirt; the young lover has his hand on a paper lettered 'last will & testament of Mr Gripe' hanging over the lid of an open money-chest, full of bags which spill onto the floor, some inscribed with sums of money, one with 'Mortgage on -'; a large, ornately framed picture of a stern man in Tudor costume on the wall behind at right, bust of a bearded man on a window-ledge at centre."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego."Plate 2."--Lower right corner.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.Mounted on leaf 64 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.