The pleasures of a single life [graphic]

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Title: The pleasures of a single life [graphic]
Creator: Welborn, W. active 1773, printmaker
Published / Created: pub. March 20th, 1773.
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: An elderly man reclining on a settee, with his gouty leg supported on a foot stool, looks at two women in capes and hats and a darkish man behind them, probably his servant, who gathered expecting his imminent demise. A stout doctor is taking his pulse
Description: Title from item.
Probably published by Darly. Cf. Companion print: The pleasures of matrimony.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Diseases: gout -- Trades: physicians -- Crutches.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii ; May 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.5 x 25.5 cm, on sheet 19 x 27 cm
Language: English

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