Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Ague & fever.
Call Number
C South 02/Drawer 06/GC112/Half Folio/Prints GA 2014.00774
Identifier
ark:/88435/0p096g01p
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d. [1788]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1788
Extent
1 item ; sheet 39.8 x 45.1 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego I, p. 226
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: The two conditions of Ague and Fever are ingeniously portrayed. The cold snake-like folds of Ague are twining round the shivering victim, seated as he is in the full heat of a blazing fire, while the quivering heats of Fever personified are in attendance, between the patient and his physician, waiting to add his persecutions to the infirmities which the sick man is already enduring.
Inscribed in plate, lower margin: "And feel by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce". Milton.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Design'd by James Dunthorne.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Etch'd by T. Rowlandson.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Diseases—Great Britain—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Physician and patient—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Medicine—Great Britain—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Suffering—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Anthropomorphism in art
Monsters in art
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d45d51fa-f0f6-4ae4-ac70-2bed14f5c38c/manifest