[The profligate punished] [graphic]

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Title: [The profligate punished] [graphic]
Creator: Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, printmaker
Contributor: Penny, Edward, 1714-1791, artist.
Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: March the 22nd 1775.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publised [sic] by Messrs Sayer and Bennet, Fleet Street
Abstract: A man sitting in an armchair with his gouty foot on a footstool in front of him, looking up in pain at a maidservant who pours water from a kettle on the leg, distracted by a page standing behind the chair, another woman drinks beside the door in the background on the right, and a little boy takes something from the table on the left; after Penny; scratched-letter state
Description: Title from published state.
Scratch-letter proof; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 158, page 598.
Companion print to: The virtuous comforted by sympathy and attention.
Provenance: Justin F. Skrebowski; September 2001;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 60.4 x 45.5 cm, on sheet 64 x 50 cm
Edition: [Scratched-letter proof].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1775
Mezzotints England London 1775
Proofs
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Sick persons
Servants
Subjects: Sick persons
Servants
England > 1775
England > London > 1775

Access: Public
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