Ague & fever [graphic]
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Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Ague & fever [graphic]
Description
- Title
- Ague & fever [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Ague and fever
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
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Dunthorne, Jas., active 1783-1792, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher. - Published / Created
- [5 November 1792]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Abstract
-
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's back, in the middle of the room, Fever, a furry monster with burning eyes, resembling an ape, stands full-face with outstretched arms. On the right the doctor sits in profile to the right at a small table, writing a prescription, holding up a medicine-bottle in his left hand. The room is well furnished and suggests wealth: a carved four-post bed is elaborately draped. On the high chimney-piece are 'chinoiseries' and medicine-bottles. Above it is an elaborately framed landscape."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Reissue, with new imprint statement, of print published in 1788 by T. Rowlandson. Cf. No. 7448 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Companion print to: The hypochondriac.
One line of quoted text below image, etched on either side of title: "And feel by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes, "extremes by change more fierce. Milton.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 226-7.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Ague -- Demons & devils -- Prescription of drugs.
1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 41.2 x 56.9 cm. - Extent
- 1 print : sheet 43 x 55.9 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Print20007
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1788
Aquatints England London 1792
Etchings England London 1792 - Material
- etching and aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Fever
Prescription writing
Sick persons
Monsters
Physicians
Medicines
Writing materials
Desks
Beds
Draperies
Fireplaces - Subjects
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Fever
Prescription writing
Sick persons
Monsters
Physicians
Medicines
Writing materials
Desks
Beds
Draperies
Fireplaces
England > 1788
England > London > 1792
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
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
- 12709141
- Object ID (OID)
- 17339582