'Gentle Emetic', print, engraving, United Kingdom, 1801-1831

PART OF:: Set of three hand coloured caricature engravings after Gillray

Made:: 1801-1831 in United Kingdom

maker:: James Gillray

'Gentle Emetic', print, engraving, United Kingdom, 1801-1831

This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

Buy this image as a print

Buy

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

hand coloured caricature engraving "Gentle Emetic"/after Gillray (?Dublin issue of 1801) 25.5x19cm. to border

An emetic is a liquid treatment that is drunk to cause vomiting. The theory was that it would rid the body of the poisons that caused disease. It was a universal treatment for many conditions. In this print, the bowl is ready for when the man vomits and he has a cold compress applied to his head.

This print was etched by James Gillray (1757-1815), a British caricaturist. Gillray lived above a bookshop belonging to Hannah Humphrey (1778-1822), who printed this caricature in 1804 and many others by Gillray.

Details

Category:: Art

Object Number:: 1980-366/2

Materials:: paper

Measurements:: overall: 390 mm x 300 mm x 30 mm,
frame: 28 mm x 295 mm x 39 mm, 1.73kg

type:: print

credit:: Edmunds, A.

Cite this page

Rights

We encourage the use and reuse of our collection data.

Data in the title, made, maker and details fields are released under Creative Commons Zero . Descriptions and all other text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence

Using our data

Download

Download catalogue entry as json

Download manifest IIIF

Our records are constantly being enhanced and improved, but please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information shown on this website.