[The incurable] [graphic].

Description

Title: [The incurable] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Monro, John,--1715-1791--Caricatures and cartoons.
Riviere & Son Binding.
Published / Created: 1784 April 4
Copyright Date: [4 April 1784]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: W. Humphry, no. 227 Strand
Abstract: Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable.
Description: CtY-LW
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more.
Title from Grego.
Extent: 1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 24 x 29 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Collection Title: The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Collection/Other Creator: Harvey, Francis
Collection Created: London
Container / Volume: Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-56

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1784.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1784.
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Monro, John,--1715-1791--Caricatures and cartoons.
Riviere & Son Binding.
Subject (Topic): Mentally ill persons.
Physical restraints.
Physicians.
Quizzing glasses.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6495
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 124