Miseries of human life introductory dialogue / [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1 January 1807]eng"In a cottage room a sick man lies in a ramshackle uncurtained bed, on the foot of which sits a woman. Four children stand beside her, two younger ones are by the fire, at which a woman is cooking. Another woman stands at a wash-tub. Sheets hang on a line. A dog puts his paws on the bed. Over the fireplace are plates and a gun; a bird is in a wicker cage. The man's coat and top-boots are on a chair beside him."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Two lines of quoted text below title: "Sickness befriends temperance, by the simplicity of diet which it introduces - it wards off the varied injuries of the open air by requiring the party to inhale a thousand times over, the cherishing equable and safely treasured atmosphere of a chamber."Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806. See no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of page number from upper right. Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum."Page 10"--Upper right corner.Mounted on leaf 33 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.