Misiries of high life [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[not before 1 March 1808]eng"An ugly coxcomb leeringly hands a fan to one of two ladies walking off to the right. Behind (left), the heads of three stooping men collide. On the extreme left is the Prince of Wales, opera-hat under his arm, facing a woman, immodestly décolletée, who ogles him. Two other men and two women stand near them. The scene is the foyer of a theatre."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Later state; place and date of publication have been burnished from beginning of imprint statement.Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "London, March 1st, 1808, Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside." Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 808.03.01.01.1+.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 this without being the happy man after all. Miseries of Human Life.Plate numbered "222" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.Also issued separately."Price one shilling could."--Lower left corner of design.Temporary local subject terms: Coxcombs -- Male costume, 1808 -- Female costume, 1808.1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 35.7 cm, on sheet 27.4 x 37.2 cm.Watermark: Basted Mill.Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.