Comfort in the gout [graphic]

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Title: Comfort in the gout [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University).
Published / Created: [30 November 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Novr. 30th - 1785 - by J.R. Smith, No. 83 - Oxford Street
Abstract: "A fat man (left) seated in an arm-chair, his swathed left leg supported on a stool, his crutches and an open 'Treatise on Gout' beside him. A meretricious-looking young woman bends over him, putting her right hand on his right shoulder and holding his left hand. A young woman of disreputable appearance pours out wine for him. A footman in livery (right) is about to put a large tureen on a dinner-table (right). A fat man is seen through an open door. A dog and cat lie together in the foreground. Behind the man's chair are the curtains of a bed. Probably one of the establishments in King's Place, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6764, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prostitution.
Provenance: Bequest of Clements C. Fry; 1955.
Extent: 1 print : 250 x 332 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Material: etching with stipple ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Gout
Prostitutes
Servants
Wine
Crutches
Dogs
Cats
Subjects: Gout
Prostitutes
Servants
Wine
Crutches
Dogs
Cats
England > 1785
England > London > 1785

Access: Public
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