Comfort to the corns [graphic] / Js. Gillray invt.
- Published/Created:
- [London] :
[publisher not identified],
[ca. 1800] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.5 x 22.0 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Close copy, with plate number on border, of a print with the same title by James Gillray published by Hannah Humphrey on February 6, 1800.
Publication date based on that of the original print by Gillray from which this copy was made.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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Plate numbered '134' in upper right corner. - Abstract:
- An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat. She wears spectacles and a shawl around her head.
- Topics:
- Cats.
Chairs.
Eyeglasses.
Feet.
Fireplaces.
Medical procedures & techniques.
Older people.
Slippers.
Wash tubs. - Topics:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1800.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1800. - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Call Number:
- 800.02.06.02
Folio 75 W87 807 v.2 - Orbis Record:
- 8228713
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr14559
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9585A
- OID:
- 16192718
- PID:
- digcoll:4046593
