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William Heath
The patent stomach reliever 1824
hand-coloured etching
20.6 × 32.4 cm (image) 24.8 × 35.4 cm (image and text) 25.4 × 36.2 cm (plate) 26.3 × 37.8 cm irreg. (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
Photo: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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The patent stomach reliever
1824
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
20.6 × 32.4 cm (image) 24.8 × 35.4 cm (image and text) 25.4 × 36.2 cm (plate) 26.3 × 37.8 cm irreg. (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 14690
Printing/Publishing
published by S. W. Fores, London
Inscription
printed in ink l.r.: Pub Feb 26 1824 by S W Fores 41 Picadilly.
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: The PATENT STOMACH RELIEVER·for extracting superfluities, / exceſses, & all sorts of Poisons.— Dedicated to Aldermen, Corporations, & Gormondizers in General – (Poisons underlined)
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-u.r.: (four speech bubbles of text)
Accession Number
1573.39-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire
Subjects (specific)
caricatures cartoons (humorous images) gluttony men (male humans) patients physicians treating (health care function)
Movements
Regency (British)