Title from item.
Alternative title from supporting materials.
Grego, II, p. 121
Caption on item: Chasing your hat (just blown off in a high wind) through a muddy street - a fresh gust always whisking it away at the moment of seizing it ; when you have at last caught it deliberately putting it on, with all its sins upon your head, amidst the jeers of the populace.
Notes (acquisition):
The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
Notes (date):
Date from item.
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):
One of 49 etchings bound with title page in "The Miseries of Human Life," designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson. This volume was published December 1, 1808 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, London.
