Breathing a vein [graphic].

Description

Title: Breathing a vein [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1804 January 28
Copyright Date: [28 January 1804]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "The patient sits on a stool, averting his head from the surgeon who supports his left. arm, from which the blood spurts into a bowl. The operator wears spurred top-boots, and has a bucolic appearance suggesting a veterinary surgeon. The patient wears a nightcap and buttoned waistcoat over his shirt."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression.
Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.2 x 20.0 cm, on sheet 33 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1804.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1804.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10306
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 483
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 271