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The patent stomach reliever
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
20.6 × 32.4 cm (image) 24.8 × 35.4 cm (image and text) 25.4 × 36.2 cm (plate) 26.3 × 37.8 cm irreg. (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 14690
Printing/Publishing
published by S. W. Fores, London
Inscription
printed in ink l.r.: Pub Feb 26 1824 by S W Fores 41 Picadilly.
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: The PATENT STOMACH RELIEVER·for extracting superfluities, / exceſses, & all sorts of Poisons.— Dedicated to Aldermen, Corporations, & Gormondizers in General – (Poisons underlined)
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-u.r.: (four speech bubbles of text)
Accession Number
1573.39-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire
Subjects (specific)
caricatures cartoons (humorous images) gluttony men (male humans) patients physicians treating (health care function)
Movements
Regency (British)