"An ox pins a fat 'cit' to a door-step (right), its horns enclosing the man's neck. Men with bludgeons chase the ox, filling the broad street. Two dogs leap savagely at it, one against the body of an old woman who falls violently to the ground. Other passers-by flee across the street. They include a fat woman with a (falling) basket on her head, a Jew with a sack on his back, and a man on crutches. The ox is beside the curved shop-window of a 'Chemist'; across the road is a 'China Warehouse', A coach with outside passengers turns down a side street (left). In the middle of the street is an obelisk supporting three lamps."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
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., Text below image: Being pinned up to a door, round the neck, by the horns of an enraged over-driven ox., and Title etched above image; page number etched above upper right corner of image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"An old woman stands on a pavement in in profile to the left., holding a basket containing nosegays on her right. arm. She has sharp features and is very neatly dressed in a plain figured gown gathered at the waist by a string. She wears a flat hat of antique pattern over a white cap, a red cloak, mittens, and buckled shoes."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"The dignified houses of Pall Mall, receding in perspective from right to left, form a background to a crowd of carriages and pedestrians all fashionably dressed except for a woman carrying a basket."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
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., Title etched below image., and Two lines of quoted verse on either side of title: "O bear me to the paths of fair Pall Mall, safe are thy pavemts., grateful is thy smell ...
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Design incorporates image elements of nos. 5916, 5917, and 7238 and is titled the same as no. 5914 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate also published in: Caricatures. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1836?], page 76., Printmaker and questionable date of publication from Grego., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons --England and Satires (Visual works) --England
"While crossing a ford the horse of a man with a lady seated behind him rears and snorts and prepares to gallop after the hunt: huntsmen follow a pack in full cry on the opposite hill (r.). The lady is very fat and wears a light, loose dress with a cloak and a feathered hat. She falls backwards, kicking the man in the back and clutching his hatf, has dropped the reins, his whip flies over his head and his hat falls off, and he is about to fall back on tne falling lady whose bared thigh he gashes with his spur. Frogs in the water look up in astonishment."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Danger of riding an old-hunter
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.