Watercolor with pen black and gray ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 7/16 x 16 3/8 inches (26.5 x 41.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in red ink, lower left: "LsD" collector's stamp; Verso: inscribed in brown ink, center: "Doctor Graham's, Cold Earth, and Warm Mud Bathing. | Dr. Graham having had the honour of Publickly exhibiting Earth Bathing, at Bath, and at Bristol, every Day for four Months, | last Winter and Spring, and explaining the nature of it to the Nobility and Gentry, and of radically Curing by it a great number | of Persons who were inaviable by Medicine and Surgery. Presented Lists of whom will, by permission, be given Gratis, in Fleet Street, | with himself God willing, with several Patients, be Buried up to his Chiin among fresh Country Earth, broght to No. 26 Fleet Street, next | Door to Mr. Beetham's, exactly opposite St. Dunstan's Church, on Monday next May the 7th and every Day next Week; from 11. till 3. | o'Clock, Admission to this New, Curious, and Salutary sight and to the Doctors explanation of it, only One Shilling. Books of Cures | Gratis.-----Very Poor Persons who are afllicted with Coughs, far gone Consumptions of the Lungs, Palsy, or any other severe Nervous | Spasm, or weakness, Leprosy, Corrosive scurvy, inveterate veneral diseases, incurable by others. Rheumatism, Kings Evil, crooked -- | backbones, or Linbs in Youth, Dropsy, Swellings, intolerable Itchings, Sores, Ulcers, Pules, or Fistula, internal or external, if they apply | immediately will be cured Gratis.----Freely hath he Received, Freely wherefore he is Commanded to give, to do good, and to Communicate. | Forget not, for with such Sacrifices God is well pleased.. The Doctor Lodges at No 6 Wine Office Court Fleet Street."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thomas Rowlandson from the Paul Mellon Collection (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2005-04-14 - 2005-06-10)British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (The Library of Congress, 1984-11-13 - 1985-02-26)English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (National Gallery of Canada, 1985-02-26 - 1985-05-10)English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-09-01 - 1985-11-13)English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985-06-04 - 1985-09-05)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
Publications:
Simon Schama, Rowlandson in the Round, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue no. 3963, March 10, 1978, p. 282, Film S748 (SML) Also available Online in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS)