Tabitha Grunt, or, The walking hospital [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Tabitha Grunt, or, The walking hospital [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Walking hospital
- Creator
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Contributor
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Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University). - Published / Created
- [24 July 1813]
- Publication Place
- London and England London
- Publisher
- Publish'd July 24, 1813, by Jas. Whittle, & Richd. H. Laurie, Fleet Street, London
- Abstract
-
Print shows a hideous old maid standing at right before her chair, supported on a crutched stick, as she addresses a comic doctor at left, who faces her, much disconcerted, with his gold-headed cane pressed to his chin. Her dress is antiquated, with high-heeled shoes; one foot is swollen with "Gout", the other with "Chilblains", and is also distorted with "Corns". Her person and costume are covered with the names of diseases in appropriate places: "Lightness" (on a feather nodding from her head), "Head Ache", "Stupor", "Dizziness", "Palsy", "Ague", "Sore Throat", "St Vit. Dance", "Asthma", . etc. Medicine bottles on a table beside her are labelled "Miss Grunt" and "T- Grunt". A little dog, shaved in the French manner, barks at the doctor. The room is a comfortably furnished parlour, with an iron balcony outside a window reaching to the floor, with a background of trees
- Description
-
Title from item.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Two columns of etched verse beneath title: Im loaded with ev'ry disease, it is true ... You're welcome to all, Sweet Miss's adieu!
Plate numbered "525" in the lower left corner. - Provenance
- Clements C. Fry.
- Extent
- 1 print : image 169 x 235 mm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Print00151
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Etchings
Satires (Visual works) England 1813
Etchings England London 1813 - Material
- etching ; and hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Gout
Hypochondria
Older women
Older people
Staffs (Sticks)
Medicines
Dogs
Parlors - Subjects
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Gout
Hypochondria
Older women > Caricatures and cartoons
Older women
Older people
Staffs (Sticks)
Medicines
Dogs
Parlors
England > 1813
England > London > 1813
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16038128
- Object ID (OID)
- 17339062