A gentle hint! (BM 1865,1111.2145)

An old, paunchy doctor, with a grotesque profile, his cane under his arm, holds the pulse of his patient, looking at his watch; he says, "You are bespoke!!" The patient, emaciated and burlesqued, wearing dressing-gown and nightcap with waistcoat and breeches, capers in frantic terror. The design suggests an adaptation from Rowlandson.
1 June 1818

Hand-coloured etching transferred to a lithographic stone