Gentle emetic [graphic].

Description

Title: Gentle emetic [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: "An invalid sits, with contorted features, at a table (l.) on which are basin, tea-pot, medicine-bottle, glass. His head is held by a compassionate friend, standing behind him. He wears night-cap, shirt, breeches, and unbuttoned waistcoat."--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 26 x 20 cm, on sheet 33 x 23 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.
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. 10304
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 482
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 271