Dropsy Courting Consumption
Dublin Core
Title
Dropsy Courting Consumption
Subject
Etchings (prints)
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Caricatures
Edema
Tuberculosis
Personification
Description
Dropsy, the stout man, is shown courting consumption, the withered woman. Rowlandson contrasts these 19th century figures to the statue of the classical Hercules.
Abstract
Personification of Dropsy wooing a personification of Consumption, by Thomas Rowlandson
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Publisher
Thomas Tegg
Date Created
1810
Rights
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Access Rights
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Is Part Of
Manfred Kraemer Collection of Medical Prints and Satires. MMC 017 (07:06)
References
Available online through HOLLIS here.
Format
image
Extent
1 etching
Medium
etching (printing process) on paper; hand coloring on paper; watercolor on paper
Language
English
Provenance
From the Manfred Kraemer Collection of Medical Prints and Satires. Gift of the Maine Medical Center to the Harvard Medical School, 1992
Files
Citation
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, “Dropsy Courting Consumption,” OnView, accessed March 29, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/12991.