Consolation in the gout! [graphic]

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Title: Consolation in the gout! [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: Novr. 26, 1769 [i.e. 1796?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Abstract: A stout man (left) wearing a robe and nightcap, on crutches with his gouty right foot bandaged and in a sling that wraps around his shoulders, complains to a thin man (right) wearing a coat and boots but with his legs bare. The man on the left says "Don't plague me now - I have got the gout", to which the other man replies "I give you joy my good friend, in these hard times it is very well you can get any thing!!!"
Description: Title etched below image.
Final two digits of year in imprint likely transposed in error; publisher S.W. Fores did not move to the 50 Piccadilly street address until the mid-1790s, according to the British Museum online catalogue. Krumbhaar lists 1789 as the year of publication.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Sling for a gouty foot.
1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.5 x 23.3 cm.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.9 x 23.7 cm, on sheet 38 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Watermarks (Paper) P Edmonds 1817
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Gout
Crutches
Subjects: Gout
Crutches
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
P Edmonds > 1817
18th century

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