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The origin of the gout
Title
The origin of the gout [graphic] / etch'd from an original sketch by W.H. Bunbury Esqr.
Publication
[London] : Publish'd as the act directs, April 20th, 1785, by J. Jones, Great Portland Street, [20 April 1785]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 22.8 x 26.4 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Music: Cello -- Furniture: Wall clock -- Medical disease -- Wine glasses -- Decanters.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Lettered state of no. 6881 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Summary
"A gouty and obese man (right) seated in a chair plays the 'cello. Both legs are swathed, the feet wrapped in slashed coverings; the right leg rests on a stool. The Devil (left), hat in hat, holds in a pair of tongs a cinder against the right knee. Bottles and glasses stand on a table. A pair of crutches lean against the chair. The hands of a wall-clock point to 12.25."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 09, 2011
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1785.
Etchings - England - London - 1785.
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