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Acute Pain. No. 10.

Acute Pain. No. 10. The curious observer of the Passion, has only to get a careless Servant to pour some hot water on his foor, in a case of the Gout, & he will soon know the nature of Acute Pain.

Woodward Del. Etched by Rowlandson.
London Pub: 21 Jan. 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). Binding holes in left edge. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Acute Pain is portrayed by a man who suffers with gout crying out because his servant has poured tea on his foot. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
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