Mrs Testy exasperated at trying to thread a needle, Mr Sensitive seated by the fire in despair, Mr Testy stamping angrily on a glove, and Ned Testy exclaiming. Coloured aquatint by W.H. Pyne, 1806.

On the wall are three pictures: a painting or print in an elaborate frame, labelled "Mountain of misery", and two allegorical prints of "Fortitude" and "Temperance", in print frames

The figures are characters in Beresford's "Miseries of human life": they despair about everything, in different ways. On the floor by Mr Sensitive are two books entitled Much ado about nothing and The art of tormenting. Ned declaims "Sunt lacrymæ rerum" (from Virgil's Aeneid)

[London] (Albemarle Street) : W. Miller, 1 June 1806.

1 print : etching and aquatint, with watercolour ; image 15.5 x 20 cm

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1947, vol. 8, no. 10695

Wellcome Collection 38417i