A paralyzed woman being transported along the street in a wheelchair. Lithograph by Théodore Gericault, 1821.

  • Géricault, Théodore, 1791-1824.
Date:
Ap[ril] 21 1821
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46957i
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A paralyzed woman being transported along the street in a wheelchair. Lithograph by Théodore Gericault, 1821. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The wheelchair is an improvisation produced by adding leather or fabric side-walls and crude wooden wheels to an ordinary chair. The man who pulls it along the street stops for a rest. On the left, a young woman looks at the chair with a fearful expression. The child who accompanies her pays no attention, but holds a toy horse. In the right background a real horse is driven through the fog by a coachman. On the wall at back, a fragment of a poster advertising a remedy

Publication/Creation

London (New Bond St.) : Rodwell & Martin, Ap[ril] 21 1821 ([London] : C. Hullmandel's Lithography)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph ; image 22.3 x 31.7 cm

Lettering

A paraleytic woman. J. Gericault invt.

References note

L. Eitner, Géricault: his life and work, London 1983, fig. 183 and pp. 209-234
L. Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. 18: Théodore Géricault, Paris 1924, no. 38

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Wellcome Collection 46957i

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