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A sweating for opposition by Dr. W-llis Dominisweaty and co.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson

Published by: S W Fores
Title
A sweating for opposition by Dr. W-llis Dominisweaty and co.
Description
English: Two doctors (left) stoke the fires of a row of seven cylindrical vessels or furnaces from which their patients (half length) emerge. These recede slightly in perspective from right to left. On the extreme right is Burke ('B------e'), drooping dejectedly, and saying, "By Jasus I have got no Juice left". Next him Fox ('F--x') declaims, hat in hand, "I have sweated enough. Sheridan ('S------n') gesticulates furiously with clenched fists, saying, "This is Scandalous the Baily's have sufficiently sweated me" (executions in Sheridan's house were frequent). Next him is the Prince ('P------'), claspmg his hands, and saying, "I suppose they call this a Regency Sweat". A


young woman on his right, 'Mrs J------n', (? Jordan) says "I sweat with desire". Next is ('W------e') Weltje (cf. BMSat 7509), saying, "I never sweat so much at Cooking in all my Life". On the extreme left Mrs. Fitzherbert ('F--T--T'), her arms extended in a frenzy, says, "And I with Jealousy what disregard the Marriage Rights". On the ground, below their patients, are the two doctors: Willis on the extreme left, indicated by his clerical bands, holds coal on a shovel, while Dominicetti, wearing a nightcap, kneels on one knee to stir up the furnace under Sheridan with a long poker. On the right is a 'Coal Tub'. Clouds of steam rise from the baths. 6 March 1789


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Edmund Burke
Date 1789
date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 246 millimetres
Width: 345 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5843
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A satire on the disappointment of the Prince and his friends at the King's recovery (cf. BMSats 7394, 7509), in which, however, Dr. Willis is associated with the quack Dominicetti. His reports, more favourable than those of his colleagues, had been distrusted by the Opposition. Dominicetti had in the garden of his house (6 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea) 'an elegant brick building', in which were baths and fumigating stoves. He advertised his vaporous baths widely. Faulkner, 'Hist. of Chelsea', 1810, pp. 427-9.

Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 248.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5843
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