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The head ache
Title
The head ache [graphic] / [anchor symbol] ; G. Cruikshank fect.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. Feby. 12th, 1819, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, [12 February 1819]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 20.7 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 23 x 28 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: a slanted anchor.
Summary
"A man, thin, elderly, and bald, leans back despairingly in an arm-chair by the fire, grimacing with upturned eyes, and holding a (useless) medicine-bottle. He is tormented by six little demons; one bores into his skull with an auger, another with a bit. A third raises a mallet to strike a wedge into the skull. One sits on his victim's shoulder, holding a music-book and bawling into his ear, another blows a trumpet against his cheek. A sixth runs up his arm to bring a red-hot poker into action."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Headache
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 21, 2010
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9, no. 13439
Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1186
Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 871
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Five hundred years of medicine in art, 51.6
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1819.
Etchings - England - London - 1819.
Artists' devices.
Also listed under
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University).
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