A man, decrepit with gout, helpless in his own home. Coloured lithograph.
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Description
The man breaks his bell rope, having dropped the poker causing the kettle to spout boiling water; the cat claws his leg in alarm and his book falls to the floor
Lettering
Notions of the agreeable. Here's a dreadful situation! Murder! Betty! Here's the poker fell out! I shall be scalded to death! Oh this infernal gout!
Publication/Creation
London (377, Strand) : William Spooner, (22, Denmark St., Soho : W. Kohler)
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, with watercolour
Publications note
Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 10510i
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Language
- English
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