G S Tregear (Publisher)
A Cure for a Cold
London, G Tregear 1833
Lithograph
Original hand colouring
320 x 250 mm
£140
From a series titled Tregears Flights of Humour No. 32 A man wrapped up with a scarf around his neck, wearing a thick bed-cap is seated in an armchair. His legs are bare belwo the knee and his feet are in a tub of hot water. He holds a spoon in his left hand which is dipped into a large bowl of gruel on a table beside him. Below the main title follows; Here’s a go; I must keep my feet in hotwater 20 minutes take two quarts of gruel wrap my head in flannel and tallow my nose