‘Scraps & Sketches Part 3’, 1831

Description

Mounted hand coloured etching, entitled ‘Scraps & Sketches Part 3’, designed, etched and published by George Cruikshank in 1831.

This caricature consists of eight scenes of visual and verbal puns. In the large central scene a doctor, made up of a large mortar, his staff a pestle, medicine bottles for legs and a syrup-jar for a head, sits forward in his chair, is in consultation with his patient, a large pair of anthropomorphised bellows, about wind.

The doctor says, “Describe the symptoms”. The patient replies “Why, you see Doctor_I am upon trimes so dread-fully puffed up with the wind!_and then again, I have a sinking feeling in my stomach!” Either side of the main scene are individual figures of a fashionable bellows-woman, with a bonnet, and a guitar player made of a pair of tongs playing a bellows guitar.