Comfort to the corns [graphic]

Description

Title: Comfort to the corns [graphic]
Contributor: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat. She wears spectacles and a shawl around her head
Description: Title etched below image.
Close copy, with plate number on border, of a print with the same title by James Gillray published by Hannah Humphrey on February 6, 1800.
Publication date based on that of the original print by Gillray from which this copy was made.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Plate numbered '134' in upper right corner.
Provenance: Caricatures II; September 1968;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 28.5 x 22.0 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 800.02.06.02
Collection Title: V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cats
Chairs
Eyeglasses
Feet
Fireplaces
Medical procedures & techniques
Older people
Slippers
Wash tubs
Subjects: Cats
Chairs
Eyeglasses
Feet
Fireplaces
Medical procedures & techniques
Older people
Slippers
Wash tubs
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

Access: Public
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