Two old gouty men dancing with bandaged legs, an old nurse is holding their crutches, behind her is a gleeful doctor. Coloured aquatint, 1801.
- Date:
- June 1801
- Reference:
- 11204i
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The gouty man on the left says: "Come let us dance about, burn the crutches, hang the gout, now for love's sweet revel rout, we'll kiss the lasses round, sport and play - night and day, heedless what the grave ones say; cheery, merry, lie down derry! Let love and wine abound!" The other replies: "Bravo! Bravo! Doctor! Confusion to crutches, flannel, water gruel and old nurses!!"
Publication/Creation
London (50 Oxford St.) : W. Holland, June 1801.
Physical description
1 print : aquatint with etching
Lettering
Relief from the gout!! ...
References note
Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954
Reference
Wellcome Collection 11204i
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