"A skating scene. A man with legs widely spread poised on the back of his skates, throws up his arms and is about to crash backwards; his hat flies in the air. Beside him (left) a man falls through the ice. A young man pushing a woman in a chair, absorbed in the falling man, is about propel her into the hole. A stout man staggers wildly on one heel, kicked by a military officer (right) skating rapidly to the right A little boy with a broom grins at the disasters. In the background (left), under a bare wind-swept tree a man sits to have his skates adjusted. Two women look on."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
In skaiting, slipping in such a manner that your legs start off in this unaccomodating posture ...
Description:
"Page 43"--Upper right corner., 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., Text below title: In skaiting, slipping in such a manner that your legs start off in this unaccomodating posture, from which, however, you are soon relieved by tumbling forwards on your nose, or backwards on your skull ..., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title: 'Getting up early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, table, shovel, tongues, poker and fender huddled into the middle of the room. Carpet tossed backward. - floor newly washed, windows wide open. - bees wax brush and ru]bber in one corner - brooms, mops and pails in another - and a dingy Drab on her knees before an empty grate -'. A man arrested at the door of a room disarrayed by cleaning, wearing a dressing gown and with a gouty slippered foot, his hands held out warily in front of him, his teeth clenched together and his nose dripping; at left, kneeling in front of the grate, a stout and grotesque maid scrubbing the floor; a bust portrait of a man above the mantelpiece, looking disapprovingly down on the maid; cat and caged bird at far right."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
"Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate numbered '28' in upper right corner., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Subject (Topic):
Anger., Birdcages., Cats., Domestic life., Housework., Interiors., Sweeping & dusting., and Women domestics.
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title (partially damaged) of the design: '[getting up] early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, ta[ble, shovel, tongues,] poker and fender huddled into the middle of the room. Carpet tossed backward. - floor newly washed, windows wide open. - bee[s wax brush and ru]bber in one corner - brooms, mops and pails in another - and a dingy Drab on her knees before an empty grate -'. A man arrested at the door of a room disarrayed by cleaning, wearing a dressing gown and with a gouty slippered foot, his hands held out warily in front of him, his teeth clenched together and his nose dripping; at left, kneeling in front of the grate, a stout and grotesque maid scrubbing the floor; a bust portrait of a man above the mantelpiece, looking disapprovingly down on the maid; cat and caged bird at far right."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
"Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint., Date of publication from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "257" in upper right corner., Reissue, with altered plate number and with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate, of a print published 9 October 1807 by Thomas Tegg. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.10.09.01., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"In a cottage room a sick man lies in a ramshackle uncurtained bed, on the foot of which sits a woman. Four children stand beside her, two younger ones are by the fire, at which a woman is cooking. Another woman stands at a wash-tub. Sheets hang on a line. A dog puts his paws on the bed. Over the fireplace are plates and a gun; a bird is in a wicker cage. The man's coat and top-boots are on a chair beside him."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Introductory dialogue and Sickness befriends temperance, by the simplicity of diet which it introduces ...
Description:
"Page 10"--Upper right corner., 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., Title etched below image., and Two lines of quoted text below title: "Sickness befriends temperance, by the simplicity of diet which it introduces - it wards off the varied injuries of the open air by requiring the party to inhale a thousand times over, the cherishing equable and safely treasured atmosphere of a chamber."
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"A crowd outside the lamp-lit theatre door (right) set in a colonnade; slanting rain streams towards them. A stout man and woman stand together, looking round in distress, while a ragged link-boy shouts at them. Younger ladies stand behind. A prostitute accosts a fop. A sedan chair rests on the ground, held by one chairman only. Two carriages drive in opposite directions, the coachmen violently flogging the horses."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
After the play, on a raw wet night, with a party of ladies, fretting and freezing ...
Description:
"Page 85"--Upper right corner., 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., Text below title: After the play, on a raw wet night, with a party of ladies, fretting and freezing in the outter [sic] lobbies, and at the street doors of the theatre, among chairmen, barrow-women, yelling little boys, and other human refuse ..., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"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 catalogue.
Alternative Title:
As you are writing drowsily by the fire, on rousing and recollecting yourself ...
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 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., and Title etched below 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.
"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 catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Walking in a wind that cuts to the bone, with a narrative companion ...
Description:
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., 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 ..., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Fox-hunters, tipsily hilarious, at the dinner-table, with bottles, glasses, and punch-bowl. One stands on a chair giving a toast (left), another straddles the backs of two chairs, as if riding; he shouts, flourishing a whip. They wear or wave hunting-caps and wear top-boots, except for one elderly man who turns from the table in disgust. Three dogs add to the noise. On the wall are antlers and a hunting-piece."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Dining, and passing the whole evening with a party of foxhunters ...
Description:
"Page 159"--Upper right corner., 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., Text below title: Dining, and passing the whole evening with a party of foxhunters, after they have had what they call "glorious sport" ..., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"A woman stands at a wash-tub, turning to scream at her husband who sits in glum silence plying the bellows at a fire emitting smoke which obscures much of the room. An infant in a cradle (right) yells, as does another seated on the ground and brandishing a rattle. A cat miaows. Linen hangs on a line, and in the background a second woman stands at a wash-tub."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Sitting for hours before a smoky chimney, like a hottentot in a craal ...
Description:
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., Text below title: Sitting for hours before a smoky chimney, like a hottentot in a craal, then just as your sufferings seem at last to be at an end ..., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.