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Miseries of London. (BM 1947,1215.1), Street-scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title of the design: 'In going out to dinner (already too late) your carriage delayed by a jam of coaches - which choak up the whole street and allow you at least an hour or more than you require to sharpen your wits for table talk'. Coaches competing for space on a busy London street; to the front a carriage driving to right, tipping to one side to the consternation of the passengers, the driver raising his whip against the driver of a carriage traveling in the opposite direction, whose passenger is a buxom women, leaning out of the window in distress; in the foreground at left, an orange-seller and an oyster-seller (?) tripping over a woman wheeling a barrow, in front of a shop, 'Peter Thump Gold Beater', in which men are at work; at right, a woman playing a tambourine, a man with a bear on a chain and a cudgel, and two dressed and dancing dogs; behind at right, men working on the scaffolding of a house, one knocking down bricks onto the passers by below; the spire of St Giles in the distance at left.  1 February 1807
Hand-coloured etching with stipple
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Miseries of London. (BM 1947,1215.1), Uploads by copyfraud, Satirical prints in the British Museum, paper, Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson : Published by: Ackermann, Miseries of London.
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ロンドンのミステリー。ベレスフォードの「人生ミス」[1806]を題材にしたストリートシーン。デザインのタイトルに続くセリフ。「 夕食に出かける(もう遅すぎる)馬車が馬車のジャムによって遅れた。 路上を一気に歩き回り、テーブルトークのために少なくとも1時間以上も機知を削る必要がある。」ロンドンの通りで空間を競う馬車。前方に右に車が走り、乗客のぞっとするようなところに、運転手は反対側を向いて移動する馬車の運転手に対して鞭を振り、その乗客は不幸な状況で窓から寄りかかっているバクサムの女性である。左側の前景には、オレンジの売り子と牡売り(店の前にあるバローを回っている女性、男性がいる「ピーター・スump Gold Beater」
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ロンドンのミステリー。。
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window oyster buxom buxomness whip up thump print seller orange left hand dinner dress