Cutting corns [graphic].

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Description

Title: Cutting corns [graphic].
Contributor: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, attributed name.
Published / Created: [not before 1818]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "An adaptation of Gillray's 'Comfort to the Corns', British Museum Satires No. 9585. The old hag is altered to a rather younger woman, the wide hearth to a neat fireplace. The Gothic chair is replaced by a chair with a high cane back (of Charles II period). A cat watches the operation."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an etched version of the same design
Description: Title from text below image.
Probably a copy of an etching attributed to George Cruikshank and assigned a date of 1818. Cf. No. 13134 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Corns.
Mounted to 34.2 x 25.4 cm.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 31.2 x 23.5 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1818
Lithographs England London 1818
Material: lithograph ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Knives
Feet
Medical procedures & techniques
Cats
Fireplaces
Subjects: Knives
Feet
Medical procedures & techniques
Cats
Fireplaces
England > 1818
England > London > 1818

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