Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[October 1807]
Call Number:
Print00209
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
From her bed with bed curtains, an ill-looking woman with an imploring look on her face from her bed reaches for her nurse who is asleep in an armchair with her back to her patient and her feet on a cushion. She is very fat and coarse looking as she sits in front of a fire. The candle stick has fallen from the table and lies unobserved smoking on the floor at her feet, the snuffer also on the floor beside a cat who grabs the food from a plate that has also fallen to the floor. The table by the nurse's elbow holds medicine bottles as well as dishware. More medicine bottles are on the mantel and at her feet. A pot warms over the fire
Alternative Title:
While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse
Description:
Title etched below image., Five lines of text below title: While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse, who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort, leaves your door wide open, stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 32.3 x 23.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Medicines, Nurses, Accidents, and Sick persons
