More miseries page 84 / [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1 April 1807]eng"A long narrow Assembly Room. Three couples, stiff and grotesque, face each other in the foreground; behind, three other couples dance holding both hands. The musicians (right) are a black man playing tambourine and fife, and an old fiddler. A fat man stands by the door (right) holding his wig and scratching his head. Next him, a very fat woman sits drinking from a punch-bowl which a man helps her to support. Above their heads is a placard headed: 'Ball - Suppe[r] ...'. Hats and scarves hang from a row of pegs."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched above image; page number etched above upper right corner of image.Text below image: Being overpersuaded to stand up in a country dance when you know, or what is equally bad, conceive that a bear would eclipse you in grace & agility.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.Mounted on verso of leaf 33 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.