Miseries of London 4. Dialogue / [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist[1 January 1807]eng"A scene in the Strand, showing Ackermann's shop. In the foreground a man and dog chase a hat, followed by a small butcher's boy (left). Two fat women with baskets on their heads watch from the right. On the pavement is an amused muffin-man, ringing his bell. A woman helps herself to a muffin. A young woman stands on the pavement, her hands in a large muff, her feathered hat sailing upwards. In the middle distance the road is blocked by a scavenger's cart, from which a dense cloud rises, and men with shovels and broom. Ackermann's is a house with four first-floor windows. The (glass) door is inscribed 'Caricatures' and 'N 101 Strand'; above it is a tilted board: 'Ackermanns Repository of Arts'. On the left. of the door is an ale-house window from which two grinning men look out."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Text below title: Chasing your hat (just blown off in a high wind) through a muddy street, a fresh gust always whisking it away at the moment of seizing it ...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 complete loss of page number and partial loss of printmaker's signature. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum."Page 71"--Upper right corner.Watermark, mostly trimmed: [J. What]man.Mounted on leaf 34 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.