Ague_&_fever._(BM_1866,1114.622).jpg
Summary
Ague & fever.
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| Artist |
Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson
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| Title |
Ague & fever.
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| Description |
English:
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. Beneath the design is engraved:
Hand-coloured etching. |
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| Date | 1788 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Drawings
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| Accession number |
1866,1114.622
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A companion print to BMSat 7449. Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 226-7 (reproduction). Reproduced, Weber, p. 70. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1114-622 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Permission
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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