THE HYPOCHONDRIAC, 1819

Description

Mounted etching and aquatint, entitled ‘THE HYPOCHONDRIAC.’, drawn by John Augustus Atkinson published by Edward Orme in 1819.

Caricature showing an elderly man sitting in an armchair, huddled, with hands clasped and wrapped-up in a coat, cap and gaiters. He is seated propped up with a pillow in an armchair before a table with his medicine bottles and a prescription headed “PILLS”, next to a portable gothic brazier with a steaming pan. A well-curtained bed is in the background.