Visitors to the gardens of the Horticultural Society of London in Chiswick, among whom is a man who rushes off believing he has an attack of the cholera. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1831.
- Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.
- Date:
- 1831
- Reference:
- 563505i
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Presumably set in the Horticultural Society of London's gardens at Chiswick (then in Middlesex, later in Hounslow, Greater London). A crowd of fashionably dressed men and women are strolling in the gardens. A stout man in the foreground, presumably suffering from diarrhoea and/or nausea, presses his hand against against his stomach and rushes away, knocking over a lady
Publication/Creation
[London] (Southampton Street) : S. Gans, 1831.
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image and border 24.3 x 35.5 cm
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An attack of the cholera. At the Horticultural Gardens. HH
References note
Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954
Reference
Wellcome Collection 563505i
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