Miseries of human life [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[approximately 1868?]eng"A bedroom scene. A plump lady sits in a chair, making gestures of pain with hands and legs, while a hairdresser combs her back hair, and a negress combs a tress pulled forward over the face. Behind (left) another hairdresser combs the tousled hair of a lean man, who registers anguish."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Text below title: Struggling through the curse of trying to disentangle your hair when by poking curiously about on board of ship, it has become clammed and matted with pitch or tar far beyond all the powers of the comb.Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 10820 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 120.On leaf 53 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.