Miseries of travelling: 34.14-307

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Miseries of travelling
Miseries of human life

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rowlandson, Thomas

Entities

Print

Categories

Print
Album

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

19th Century
Production date: AD 1807

School or Style

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Etching

Inscription or legends present

Text: Rowlandson scul
Location: Plate lower left
Method of creation: Printed
Type: Name

Text: MISERIES OF TRAVELLING / At an inn, after pulling off your boots, - the option of going barefoot / the rest of the evening, or expatiating in a pair of boundless slippers that / have been tenanted by a thousand feet, and which when you do wear tham (as / you must in going up to bed over the wet stairs) are stumbled off, and to be stooped for / every stair from the ground to the garret.
Location: Plate lower centre
Method of creation: Printed
Type: Inscription

Identification numbers

Accession number: 34.14-307
Primary reference Number: 186092
Stephens/George: undescribed?
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 10 January 2012 Updated: Thursday 24 April 2014

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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