Acute pain [graphic]

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Title: Acute pain [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University).
Published / Created: [21 January 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: "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
Description: 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.
Watermark: Russell & Co 1799.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29.4 x 23.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Watermarks (Paper) Russell & Co. 1799
Stamps
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 (George Moutard),
Subject (Topic): Pain
Gout
Burns & scalds
Kettles
Servants
Subjects: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809
Pain
Gout
Burns & scalds
Kettles
Servants
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Russell & Co. > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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