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The sweating sickness, or, The imaginary malady (a bona fide fact)
Title
The sweating sickness, or, The imaginary malady [graphic] : (a bona fide fact).
Publication
[London] : Published 2d Decr. 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London, [2 December 1799]
Manufacture
Little Britain : Jack Rider, printer, [1799]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 20.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 45 x 30 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Fevers -- Anecdotes.
Notes
Letterpress title printed partially on plate below image, partially below plate line.
Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank by Krumbhaar.
Four columns of verse below title: Tom Ruby was a merry wag as any in the town, and he full fifteen years had worn and grac'd the civic gown ...
Summary
"Illustration to verses printed below in four columns. Six grinning 'cits' stand round one of their number who is in night-cap and waistcoat. Behind is a curtained bed. The verses relate a trick at a Sunday 'dining country jaunt' for which lavish provisions were sent to the Roe Buck in 'the Forest'. The Club went on horseback, butter was hidden in the lining of one member's hat; he was induced to believe that he had 'sweating sickness', and was put to bed instead of sharing the feast."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 12, 2008
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9504
Krumbhaar, E.B. Isaac Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, no. 1177
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Five hundred years of medicine in art, 45.7
Subjects
Genre/Form
Broadsides.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1799.
Engravings - England - London - 1799.
Etchings - England - London - 1799.
Also listed under
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
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