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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 July 1813]
- Call Number:
- Print00151
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print shows a hideous old maid standing at right before her chair, supported on a crutched stick, as she addresses a comic doctor at left, who faces her, much disconcerted, with his gold-headed cane pressed to his chin. Her dress is antiquated, with high-heeled shoes; one foot is swollen with "Gout", the other with "Chilblains", and is also distorted with "Corns". Her person and costume are covered with the names of diseases in appropriate places: "Lightness" (on a feather nodding from her head), "Head Ache", "Stupor", "Dizziness", "Palsy", "Ague", "Sore Throat", "St Vit. Dance", "Asthma", . etc. Medicine bottles on a table beside her are labelled "Miss Grunt" and "T- Grunt". A little dog, shaved in the French manner, barks at the doctor. The room is a comfortably furnished parlour, with an iron balcony outside a window reaching to the floor, with a background of trees
- Alternative Title:
- Walking hospital
- Description:
- Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two columns of etched verse beneath title: Im loaded with ev'ry disease, it is true ... You're welcome to all, Sweet Miss's adieu!, and Plate numbered "525" in the lower left corner.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd July 24, 1813, by Jas. Whittle, & Richd. H. Laurie, Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Gout, Hypochondria, Older women, Older people, Staffs (Sticks), Medicines, Dogs, and Parlors
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Tabitha Grunt, or, The walking hospital [graphic]
