IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225256 accession number: P.14667-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: satirical print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225256 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Doyle, John (HB) maker: McLean, Thomas