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Robert Seymour
1798-1836
The cholera in London
wood engraving
2 1/8 x 3 3/8 inches
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2147
Published:
[London] : [William Strange], [ca. 1834]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Probably detached from one of four issues of Whiggeries and waggeries, London : William Strange, 1834. This publication reprinted wood engravings by Robert Seymour, Robert Cruikshank, and others which had previously appeared-- often with different captions-- in Figaro in London, also published by Strange. The identical image appeared in Figaro in London, no. 12, 1832, with the title Bishop with the blue cholera.
Summary:
A bishop in bed, black in the face, is attended by three doctors: Brougham holds a ball or huge bolus inscribed 'A'; Grey holds up a lancet, blood inscribed 'Corruption' spouts from the patient's arm into a bowl held by Russell who holds up also a big bottle of 'Purge'.
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