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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson

Published by: Thomas Rowlandson
Title
Ague & fever.
Description
English: The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's back, in the middle of the room, Fever, a furry monster with burning eyes, resembling an ape, stands full-face with outstretched arms. On the right the doctor sits in profile to the right at a small table, writing a prescription, holding up a medicine-bottle in his left hand. The room is well furnished and suggests wealth: a carved four-post bed is elaborately draped. On the high chimney-piece are 'chinoiseries' and medicine-bottles. Above it is an elaborately framed landscape. Beneath the design is engraved:



'"And feel by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes,
"extremes by change more fierce.
Milton.' 29 March 1788.


Hand-coloured etching.
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 414 millimetres
Width: 562 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1866,1114.622
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A companion print to BMSat 7449.

Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 226-7 (reproduction). Reproduced, Weber, p. 70.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1114-622
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