Accession number
PML 146731, leaf 66
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Published
[London] : Publish'd July 24, 1813, by Ja's Whittle, & Richd H. Laurie, Fleet Street, [1813]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Plate numbered "525" in the lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Two columns of etched verse below caption title: Im loaded with ev'ry disease, it is true ... You're welcome to all, Sweet Miss's adieu!
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark and mounted on leaf 66 of a bound volume containing various works by George, Isaac, and Robert Cruikshank; including published suites of prints, individually published plates and caricatures, and miscellaneous illustration and reproductions removed from published works.
Plate numbered "525" in the lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Two columns of etched verse below caption title: Im loaded with ev'ry disease, it is true ... You're welcome to all, Sweet Miss's adieu!
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark and mounted on leaf 66 of a bound volume containing various works by George, Isaac, and Robert Cruikshank; including published suites of prints, individually published plates and caricatures, and miscellaneous illustration and reproductions removed from published works.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 169 x 235 mm; sheet: 224 x 259 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a hideous old maid standing at right before her chair, supported on a crutched stick, as she addresses a comic doctor at left, who faces her, much disconcerted, with his gold-headed cane pressed to his chin. Her dress is antiquated, with high-heeled shoes; one foot is swollen with "Gout", the other with "Chilblains", and is also distorted with "Corns". Her person and costume are covered with the names of diseases in appropriate places: "Lightness" (on a feather nodding from her head), "Head Ache", "Stupor", "Dizziness", "Palsy", "Ague", "Sore Throat", "St Vit. Dance", "Asthma",.. etc. Medicine bottles on a table beside her are labelled "Miss Grunt" and "T- Grunt". A little dog, shaved in the French manner, barks at the doctor. The room is a comfortably furnished parlour, with an iron balcony outside a window reaching to the floor, with a background of trees.
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