Miseries of human life. "Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair!!"

Miseries of human life. "Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair!!"

Item Information

Title:
Miseries of human life. "Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair!!"
Artist:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809
Name on Item:
Woodward del. Cruikshanks Sc.
Date:
[1807–1821]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Caricatures
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Series:
The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 4
Subjects:
Cats
Dogs
Surprise
Falling
Extent:
1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 26 x 39 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/x346dn809
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
London, 111 Cheapside : T. Tegg
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 115.
On item: 237.
Notes (acquisition):
The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
Notes (date):
Date supplied by cataloger from published dates of prints in this series.
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Notes (object):
Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 4," the fourth volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
Identifier:
18_03_000480
Barcode:
36666003272511