"The patient, buttoned up in a coat, sits full face in a water-closet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives., 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 25.5 x 20.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
"A woman in an advanced stage of pregnancy stands with folded hands, laughing, close to an elderly parson (right) of Dr. Syntax type who recoils in angry horror. Behind them is a high garden wall, with a notice: 'Man Traps laid in these Grounds'. Behind the woman (left) is a hole in the wall, through which looks the grinning head of a black servant. 'Broad Grins' is a collection of coarse comic songs by Colman, 1802, cf. British Museum Satires No. 11941."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Black joke
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. June 4th, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Pregnancy, Laughing, Clergy, Garden walls, Signs (Notices), Servants, and Smiling