Woman asleep in a library while her guardian reads her secret thoughts. Miseries of Reading and Writing. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson to accompany Reverend James Beresford’s Miseries of Human Life, Ackermann, 1808.

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