Brisk-cathartic [graphic].

Description

Title: Brisk-cathartic [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1804 January 28
Copyright Date: [28 January 1804]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "The patient, buttoned up in a coat, sits full face in a water-closet."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression.
Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching with engraving & stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.7 x 20.4 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 23.1 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1804.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1804.
Watermarks (Paper)--Edmeads & Co.--1809.--CtY-BR
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10305