| Physical description |
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 36.6 x 54.2 cm |
| References |
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1938, no. 7449 |
| Lettering note |
Lettering continues: The Mind distemper'd - say, what potent charm, /Can Fancy's spectre - brooding rage disarm? / Physics prescriptive, art assails in vain,/ The dreadful phantoms floating 'cross the brain!/ Until with Esculapian skill, the sage M.D./ Finds out at length by self-taught palmistry,/ The hopeless case - in the reluctant fee:/ Then, not in torture such a wretch to keep,/ One pitying bolus lays him sound a sleep! Design'd by James Dunthorne. Etch'd by T. Rowlandson |
| Summary |
The visions from left to right: A cauliflower-eared man drinking from a wine glass; a man, haunted by a serpent, preparing to cut his throat; a man driving a hearse whipping his horse; a woman's torso hanging limply upside-down; two lunatic faces; a hand with a sword; a ghoulish old maid holding a cloth and a rope, handing a pistol out of the shadows to the hypochondriac; a frenzied skeleton preparing to stab with an arrow |
| Cite as |
Wellcome Library no. 18127i |
| Lettering |
The hypochondriac ... |
| Author, etc. |
Dunthorne, James, active 1780-1792.
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
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| Topic-LCSH |
Melancholy.
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Skeleton.
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Suicide.
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Medical fees.
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Physicians.
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Physicians -- Salaries, etc.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
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Hallucinations and illusions.
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Delusions.
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Death.
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Imagination.
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Depression, Mental.
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Fantasy.
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Hearses (Vehicles)
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| Genre/Technique |
Caricatures.
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Etchings.
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| Copy photo no. |
V 11981 |
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L 13235 |
| System no. |
.b11760060
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| Record no. |
18127i |
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