print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.10.104
- Title
- Object: Misiries of high life.
- Description
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Below the title: 'Briskly stooping to pick up a ladys fan at the same moment, when two other gentlemen are doing the same and so making a cannon with your head against both of theirs—and this without being the happy man after all. Miseries of Human Life.' An ugly coxcomb leer-ingly hands a fan to one of two ladies walking off to the right. Behind (left), the heads of three stooping men collide. On the extreme left is the Prince of Wales opera-hat under his arm, facing a woman, immodestly décolletée, who ogles him. Two other men and two women stand near them. The scene is the foyer of a theatre.
Plate numbered 222.
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1808
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 341 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
See No. 10815, &c. The quotation is under the heading 'Miseries of Social Life'. Beresford, op. cit., p. 132.
Grego, Rowlandson, ii. 84 (copy).
(Supplementary information)
Dated by M. D. George, 1 Mar. 1808; Grego, op. et loc. cit.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.10.104