A gouty man seeking comfort in licentious surroundings. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1785.

Dorothy George suggests that this is probably one of the fashionable houses of ill repute in King's Place

The man is served food and wine by two meretricious-looking young women and a liveried servant. In the background another obese man can be seen through the doorway, a cat and dog lie intwined in the foreground. A treatise on gout and empty medicine bottle lie discarded beside the man, while behind him the curtains of a bed are parted suggestively

[London] (50 Piccadilly) : S.W. Fores, 1 July 1802.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 25 x 35.4 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/91/68

Comfort in the gout. Rowlandson 1785.

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1938, no. 6866

Wellcome Collection 10512i