Miseries of social life [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1807]eng"Two men wearing overcoats stand facing each other in a driving wind. In the background a man and woman are driven before the blast."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Text below title: Walking in a wind that cuts to the bone, with a narrative companion whose mind and body cannot move at the same time, or in other words who as he gets on with his stories, thinks it necessary, at every other sentence, to stand stock still, face about, and make you do the same ...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.Mounted on verso of leaf 38 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.