Miseries of Human Life: While Deep in Study and Lost in Thought in the

An etching of a tailor sitting cross-legged on a workbench, absorbed in his sewing, while a woman balancing a basket on her head shouts from the left. A man leans over the counter at right, and two dogs lie on the floor beside a stoneware jug.

Look closer: A small figure at lower right appears to tend a dog or cat near the stool, easily overlooked among the hatching.

Artist

Nicolaus Heideloff

Date

October 1807

Medium

Etching

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2770 × 3660 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959