Ague & fever [graphic] / design'd by James Dunthorne ; etch'd by T. Rowlandson.
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Description
- Title
- Ague & fever [graphic] / design'd by James Dunthorne ; etch'd by T. Rowlandson.
- Alternative Title
- Ague and fever
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Contributor
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Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fores, S.W., publisher.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership. - Published / Created
- 1792 November 5
- Copyright Date
- [5 November 1792]
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Publisher
- S. W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Abstract
-
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's back, in the middle of the room, Fever, a furry monster with burning eyes, resembling an ape, stands full-face with outstretched arms. On the right the doctor sits in profile to the right at a small table, writing a prescription, holding up a medicine-bottle in his left hand. The room is well furnished and suggests wealth: a carved four-post bed is elaborately draped. On the high chimney-piece are 'chinoiseries' and medicine-bottles. Above it is an elaborately framed landscape ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier state.
- Description
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Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 226-7.
Companion print to: The hypochondriac.
One line of quoted text etched on either side of title: "And feel by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes ...
Reissue of print published in 1788 by T. Rowlandson. Cf. No. 7448 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Title etched below image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 43 x 55.9 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12709141
- Object ID (OID)
- 11791648