Major G****n and lady landing at Southampton in Cripples Walk
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '4' in upper right of plate., Fourth plate in the series: Nature display'd both serious and comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esqr. Series title appears only on the first plate., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: crutches -- Diseases: gout -- Medical: hartshorn (smelling salts) -- Quacks -- Animals: dog -- Spas: Southampton -- Southampton: "Cripples Walk" -- Literature: paraphrase of Alexander Pope's Rape of the lock, canto ii,1.7., Two lines of paraphrase from Rape of the lock by Alexander Pope added in unknown contemporary hand to the right of the large female figure in the image., and Watermark.