"A footman hands a plate of food to an elderly man in night attire while carelessly letting scalding water pour from a kettle on to the latter's leg."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and series number engraved above image., Tenth plate in a series of twenty: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, page 655., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Three lines of text below image: The curious observer of the passions has only to get a careless servant to pour some hot water on his foot, in a case of the gout, & he will soon know the nature of acute pain., "No. 10.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 29.2 x 23.7., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge, resulting in loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 (George Moutard),
"A footman hands a plate of food to an elderly man in night attire while carelessly letting scalding water pour from a kettle on to the latter's leg."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and series number engraved above image., Tenth plate in a series of twenty: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, page 655., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Three lines of text below image: The curious observer of the passions has only to get a careless servant to pour some hot water on his foot, in a case of the gout, & he will soon know the nature of acute pain., "No. 10.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Russell & Co 1799.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 (George Moutard),
Leaf 63. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Copy of a design by Rowlandson. For a print of the same title published in 1789, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession number: 59.533.327., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 63 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Interiors, Fireplaces, Servants, Kettles, Accidents, and Burns & scalds
