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Taking an Emetic

Taking an Emetic

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Isaac Cruikshank

One of a pair of prints parodying the indignities of contemporary medicine, this print contrasts the tidy drawing room with the activity of the vomiting woman and her apparently similarly disposed cat.
Artist
Isaac Cruikshank
(Scottish, 1756 - 1811)
Title
Taking an Emetic
Date
March 12, 1800
Medium
Color etching
Dimensions
12 3/16 x 8 7/16 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Harold E. Kubly
Accession No.
55.4.2
Classification
Prints
Geography
Scotland

Related

1955, gifted by Harold E. Kubly (Madison, WI) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • British Satire from Hogarth to Cruikshank: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/15/2001–11/4/2001

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