A Cure for the Gout: P.14667-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

A Cure for the Gout
HB Sketches No. 91

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

Entities

Satirical print

Description

Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). The portly figure of Lord Holland (Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, 1773-1840) has risen from a chair, holding a letter in his right hand and one of his crutches, which he hands to a footman, in his left. His left foot and leg is bandaged up to the knee. Printed speech in a bubble above: 'Here - take my crutch & off with these flannels!- / I must away to town / immediately!!'. A footman walks away to the right, his finger to his nose, with printed speech contained inside a bubble above: 'That letter seems to have completely / cured my Lord's gout ... I'd lay a wager / _there is a change in the Ministry!!_'. The artist's initials in monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'A CURE FOR THE GOUT'. The publisher's details printed below: 'Published by Thos McLean, 26 Haymarket - / Novr 20th 1830.'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'Printed by C. Motte, 23, Leicester Sqre.'. Handwritten in graphite at upper right: '91'. See 16335,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p. 369-70. A number '[91]' printed in square brackets in the right-hand margin on p. 369 relates to the handwritten number at upper right, both referencing the sequence of John Doyle's Political Sketches series. P.14668-R is another impression.