A group of merry, dancing former invalids discarding their medicines in favour of alcohol as a cure. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1827, after T. Lane.
- Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828.
- Date:
- 1827
- Reference:
- 11893i
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Left to right, a man cured of gout holds up a crutch; a man cured of colic drinks a glass of champagne; an emaciated man with phthisis (a wasting disease such as tuberculosis) raises a bottle and glass. Behind, a man is putting a poster on the wall: "To the nobility - G.R. - Masquerade - Argyll Rooms - Charles Wright - Opera - Colonnade - Haymarket". Left, a man is throwing medicine bottles into the fire
Publication/Creation
London (26 Haymarket) : Thos. Mc.Lean, 1827.
Physical description
1 print : aquatint and etching, with watercolour ; image 16.6 x 23.7 cm
Lettering
Champaign driving away real pain. Wine cures the gout, the colic and the phthisic. Wine it is to all men the very best of physic. Drawn & etched by Theodore Lane. Engd. by Geo. Hunt.
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Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954
Reference
Wellcome Collection 11893i
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