A very thin man in spectacles sits in a chair before a small fire, absorbed in his reading. Books rest on the mantel above him and on the floor surrounding him
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: Luctantar paucae, comedunt coliphia paucae., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A man, thin, elderly, and bald, leans back despairingly in an arm-chair by the fire, grimacing with upturned eyes, and holding a (useless) medicine-bottle. He is tormented by six little demons; one bores into his skull with an auger, another with a bit. A third raises a mallet to strike a wedge into the skull. One sits on his victim's shoulder, holding a music-book and bawling into his ear, another blows a trumpet against his cheek. A sixth runs up his arm to bring a red-hot poker into action."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Headache
Description:
Title etched below image. and Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: a slanted anchor.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 12th, 1819, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Headache, Devil, Demons, Fireplaces, and Hand tools