Dropsy courting Consumption [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist[not before 25 October 1810]eng"A grotesquely obese man (his hat placed under his plump knees) kneels at the feet of an ugly and bedizened woman, fantastically lean and tall. She holds up a fan, and looks down alluringly at her lover to whom she gives her left hand. They are in the circular portico of a 'Mausoleum' (right). In the background is an avenue and a statue of Hercules, towards which a fat woman and a lean parson of the Dr. Syntax type are walking arm-in-arm. The muscular Hercules is contrasted with the four other types of physique represented."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate.Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. October 25th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11635 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.Also issued separately."Price one shilling coloured."Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 193.Temporary local subject terms: Courtship -- Medical diseases -- Dropsy -- Consumption -- Mausoleums.1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 36.1 x 25.5 cm.Watermark: Charles Wise.Mounted on leaf 18 of volume 11 of 14 volumes.