Billy's gouty visit, or, A peep at Hammersmith [graphic].

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Title: Billy's gouty visit, or, A peep at Hammersmith [graphic].
Alternative Title: Peep at Hammersmith
Creator: Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Contributor: Dent, William, active 1783-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: July 20th, 1789.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by W. Dent
Description: Title etched below image.
Temporary local subject terms: Medical: quacks -- Crutches -- Medicine bottle -- Diseases: gout -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Lord Chatham -- Allusion to Sir Robert Walpole -- Allusion to James Graham -- Allusion to Gustavus Katterfelto -- Conjured: bottle conjurer -- Taxes: satire on excise tax as gout bootiken -- Amputees.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield.
Provenance: Western Hemishepre, Rubin; July 1977;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.3 x 34 cm, on sheet 26 x 39 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1789
Drypoints England London 1789
Etchings England London 1789
Material: etching & drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subjects: Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1789
England > London > 1789

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