File:Labour in Vain - or, Fatty in Distress (BM 1880,1113.5369).jpg
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[edit]Labour in Vain - or, Fatty in Distress
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Artist |
After: Robert Dighton
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Title |
Labour in Vain - or, Fatty in Distress |
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Description |
English: The fat woman of BMSat 6138 struggles to get through posts which frame an opening in a low wooden rail or barrier in St. George's Fields. A beau (right), almost identical with the man who is pulling her through in BMSat 6138, leans on one elbow on the near side of the rail. Behind him, on the farther side of the rail, a fat citizen looks at her through a single eyeglass. She holds a closed fan in her right hand. A spaniel barks at her. In the middle distance (left) two men are laughing together; one carries on his head a large corded trunk. In the distance are the buildings of Saint George's Spa, the name engraved on the façade. A large tree (right) extends its branches across the upper part of the design. In the distance (right) are trees behind a ramshackle paling, extending to the buildings of the 'Spa'. 1784
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Date |
1783 date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1880,1113.5369 |
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Notes |
For comment see 1935,0522.1.54 Mounted next to the image is a small clipping of letterpress from a magazine or newspaper: "This is to give notice to all Gentlemen, Ladies and others, that St George's Spaw-Water, at the Dog and Duck and Bridge-House-Arms, at the west end of St George's Fields near Lambeth, having gain'd universal esteem by the innumerable and wonderful cures they have and do daily perform on persons afflicted with the gravel, stone, King's Evil, or any other ulcerous humours, fistulas, scorbutick blotches, fore eyes, and all sharp and salt humours; also for giving great and immediate ease in the gout and rheumatick pains; but more particularly the great success they have had in effectually curing the most inveterate cancers, for which they are recommended by most eminent physicians, and are render'd truly famous throughout Great Britain. / The cures perform'd in the distempers aforesaid by the true spaw water are too numerous to be here insexted, and many of them so very surprising as would hardly gain belief, unless asserted by the persons so happpily [sic] cur'd; to whom at any time, for further satisfaction, and person may be directed at the said spaw, where the waters are fold, and at no other place, at 12d per dozen common bottles, with a proper ticket deliver'd with it, to prevent imposition by any counterfeits. / N.B. The water keeps good and clean one Year". |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-1113-5369 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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