Miseries of the country [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[approximately 1868?]engMen in various stages of drunkenness sit at a dinner table while others are passed out on the floor. One man in topboots dances on the table as he waves his hat and a bottle. Several of the men of the party are passed out in their chairs or have fallen on the floor. An obese parson leans against the wall as he vomits. Several of them are wearing hunting hats; on the wall are antlers and a hunting-pieceTitle etched below image.Text below title: While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex being under under the necessity of getting dead drunk every day to save your life. Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 10829 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?]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.Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 124.On leaf 77 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.