An obese man wooing a tall lean woman outside a mausoleum; representing dropsy and consumption. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
- Date:
- 10 October 1810
- Reference:
- 10739i
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- Tegg's caricatures
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Symbolical figures of 'dropsy' and 'consumption' flirting outside a mausoleum; another couple promenade before a statue of Hercules in the background
Publication/Creation
[London] (111 Cheapside) : Thos. Tegg, 10 October 1810.
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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 35.3 x 25 cm.
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Dropsy courting consumption. Rowlandson del.
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VIII, London 1947, no. 11635
Carolyn A. Day, Consumptive chic: a history of beauty, fashion, and disease, [London?] 2017, p. 83, fig. 7.1 and front cover
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Wellcome Collection 10739i
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