Taking an emetic [graphic]

Description

Title: Taking an emetic [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University).
Published / Created: March 12, 1800.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Abstract: "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 9804. An ugly and elderly woman (the old maid of caricature) stands vomiting into a bucket which stands on a stool. She wears night-cap, stays, and petticoat. A kettle boils on the fire (right). A cat prepares to imitate its mistress. The setting is the corner of a neat, bare sitting-room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Sheet mostly trimmed to plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Sitting room -- Women: old maids -- Medicine - Furniture: tea table -- Containers -- Pets.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 30.5 x 22.1 cm, on sheet 30.5 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Emetics
Vomiting
Cats
Interiors
Fireplaces
Pails
Kettles
Tea services
Stools
Subjects: Emetics
Vomiting
Cats
Interiors
Fireplaces
Pails
Kettles
Tea services
Stools
England > 1800
England > London > 1800

Access: Public
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