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Acute pain

Title
Acute pain [graphic] / Woodward del. ; etched by Rowlandson.
Publication
London : Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand, [21 January 1800]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 29.4 x 23.2 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title and series number engraved above image.
Tenth plate in a series of twenty: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, page 655.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Three lines of text below image: The curious observer of the passions has only to get a careless servant to pour some hot water on his foot, in a case of the gout, & he will soon know the nature of acute pain.
"No. 10."
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"A footman hands a plate of food to an elderly man in night attire while carelessly letting scalding water pour from a kettle on to the latter's leg."--British museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 19, 2008
References
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 2
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Five hundred years of medicine in art, 50.5
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1800.
Etchings - England - London - 1800.
Watermarks (Paper) - Russell & Co. - 1799.
Stamps.
Also listed under
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University).
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