Miseries of Human Life: "While confined to your bed by sickness..."

Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London British

October 1807

Not on view

A woman sits in an armchair, sneezing, while a candle is overturned next to her, a pot is boiling over on the fire at right. Another woman is in bed behind her at left.

Artwork Details

Title: Miseries of Human Life: "While confined to your bed by sickness..."
Artist: Nicolaus Heideloff (German, Stuttgart 1761–1837 The Hague)
Artist: After Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (British, active 1794–1832)
Date: October 1807
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 13 1/8 × 9 5/16 in. (33.4 × 23.6 cm)
Sheet: 14 in. × 10 3/16 in. (35.6 × 25.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Object Number: 59.533.1014
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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