A stout man (left) wearing a robe and nightcap, on crutches with his gouty right foot bandaged and in a sling that wraps around his shoulders, complains to a thin man (right) wearing a coat and boots but with his legs bare. The man on the left says "Don't plague me now - I have got the gout", to which the other man replies "I give you joy my good friend, in these hard times it is very well you can get any thing!!!"
Description:
Title etched below image., Final two digits of year in imprint likely transposed in error; publisher S.W. Fores did not move to the 50 Piccadilly street address until the mid-1790s, according to the British Museum online catalogue. Krumbhaar lists 1789 as the year of publication., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Sling for a gouty foot., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.5 x 23.3 cm.
"A series of eight violent quarrels arranged in two rows, the words (not transcribed in full) etched above the heads of the speakers. [1] An old parson threatens his footman: "If you ever dare to say I am in a passion again I'll break every bone in your skin." [2] A man and wife on the point of blows. [3] A man thrashing a dog. [4] A woman at a tea-table flinging the contents of a cup in the face of a maidservant. [5] A woman beating a prostrate man with a pair of tongs. [6] A man dragging on a boot so as to thrust his heel through it, the shoe-maker saying: "You are so hasty master you wont give the Goods fair play." [7] Two men facing each other in argument. [8] A black servant expostulates with his master for knocking down a boy who lies on the ground: "Dear Massa you have almost killed young Master." One of a set, see British Museum Satires No. 8541, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 2, pl. 3., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage and married life -- Cruelty to animals., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 320 x 349 mm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Imperfect? Numbering in upper right possibly trimmed or erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackvill [sic] Street
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Anger, Aggression, Animal welfare, Marriage, Spouses, Fighting, Quarreling, Dogs, Staffs (Sticks), Clergy, Servants, Tea services, and Boys