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., Publication year in imprint corrected in manuscript from 1769 to 1796., and Watermark: P Edmonds 1817.
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.
Title from item., Printmaker identified from an original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of Drolls., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Buck's with Truncheon's swagger and knock down ..., Plate numbered '150' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Foot-pads -- Watches: pocket watch -- Highway robbery -- Milestones -- Bludgeons., and Watermark: Strasburg bend (partial) with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Published 4th May 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Broadside ballad by Charles Dibdin, with an etched headpiece showing the interior of a tavern with a one-legged pensioner holding a beer tankard decorated with an anchor (center), singing the song, while a maid holds a mug to another who has lost both arms (left). On the right two men play a game (draughts?) at a table. On the wall behind them is another broadside 'Poor Jack', also about a sailor with words by Dibdin. On the windows at the entrance of the tavern are postings advertising rum and gin. Several are dressed in the uniform of Greenwich pensioners
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Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses: " ... written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The oddities.", Lettered with the artist's initials in the one-legged pensioner's hat and with his full name on the edge of the table on the right., Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, by Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, where may be had, price 6d. plain and 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Bachelors' Hall, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Barber's Wedding, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibding and others. In Fores's exhibition may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides of illustration., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
