Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's dates of activity., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Series name in margin above image., Below series name: Happiness to those who wish it to others., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
W. Spooner 259 Regent Street
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Invalids, Obesity, Sick persons, Medicines, Pillows, Crutches, and Bandages
"Satire; at right, a thin man and his caped friend, guns in their hands, facing a robust military gentleman standing at centre, with four guns in his belt and a blunderbuss to hand; the three are much concerned at the appearance at left of a doctor with two saws and a large medical chest, a man carrying a coffin, and a gravedigger setting to his work; a man stands behind, balancing a box labelled 'razor blades and bullets' on his head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., and Later state with publication date burnished from plate. For earlier state cf. no. 14737 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later reissue with altered imprint statement. Originally issued by Fores, Nov. 26, 1824. Cf. No. 14739 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Watermark: Fellows 1827., and An ms. '9' was written over the etched plate number in pencil.
"Four men, much caricatured, fish from a punt which is anchored to a pole. One sleeps, another has hooked a giant frog, which a third is about to scoop up in a landing-net. The fourth registers excitement. In the punt is a chair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker identified by cataloger., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A gouty old magistrate sits at a table in a parlour in an armchair with its back to the fire (right); his clerk writes. A parish beadle with his staff stands just inside the door, behind a ragged dustman or labourer, who scratches his head while a pregnant woman (who is swearing a child to the latter) holds her apron to her eye."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Attributed to Henry Heath in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 4, 1825, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly, London
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Judges, Pregnant women, Fireplaces, Cats, and Dogs
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker from later plate in series., Date of publication based on watermarks from prints in this series at The Lewis Walpole Library., Six designs on one plate, each with a letter etched above and a word and its definition etched below., Description based on imperfect impression; probable plate number has been erased from upper right corner of sheet., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
