Miseries of reading and writing 8. Dialogue / [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist[1 January 1807]eng"A young woman sleeps in her chair, in a handsome library, her hand, holding a pen, resting on a sheet of paper. An elderly man holding an eye-glass to his eye leans over the back of her chair to inspect a paper inscribed 'My dear'. Two lighted candles have broken in half. One leaf of tin large folding door (right) is open; a woman stands outside it."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Text below title: As you are writing drowsily by the fire, on rousing and recollecting yourself, find your guardian in possession of your secret thoughts, which he never ceases to upbraid you of.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 leaf 35 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.