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Taking an emetic
Title
Taking an emetic [graphic] / ICk.
Publication
[London] : Published by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, March 12, 1800.
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 30.5 x 22.1 cm, on sheet 30.5 x 23 cm
Medium
wove paper
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Sitting room -- Women: old maids -- Medicine - Furniture: tea table -- Containers -- Pets.
Notes
Title from item.
Sheet mostly trimmed to plate mark.
Summary
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 9804. An ugly and elderly woman (the old maid of caricature) stands vomiting into a bucket which stands on a stool. She wears night-cap, stays, and petticoat. A kettle boils on the fire (right). A cat prepares to imitate its mistress. The setting is the corner of a neat, bare sitting-room."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 25, 2008
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9805
Krumbhaar, E.B. Isaac Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, no. 1190
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Five hundred years of medicine in art, 77.9
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1800.
Etchings - England - London - 1800.
Also listed under
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University).
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