Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Miseries of human life: Getting up early in a cold, gloomy morning . . .
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 12/Normal/Prints/Titles Mi GA 2014.00355
Identifier
ark:/88435/0c483s48v
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1807/10/09.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1807
Extent
1 item ; sheet 26.4 x 39.2 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 408
Grego II, p. 418
Tegg no. 28
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Inscribed in plate, lower margin: "Getting up early in a cold, gloomy morning and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort and finding chairs, table shovel, tongs, poker and fender huddled into the middle of the room, carpet turned backward, floor newly washed, windows wide open, beeswax brush and rubber in one corner, brooms, mops and pails in another and a Dingy Drab on her knees before an empty grate."
Signed in plate, lower left: "Woodward del."
Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson scul."

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Household employees—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Cold—Physiological effect—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Messes—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/12cf6f1c-3b6c-4313-ad62-d746623786d6/manifest