A gouty man surrounded by his collection of artefacts, telling his doctor how they keep turning blue; suggesting the man's melancholic loneliness. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
A hand-coloured caricature shows a seated elderly man in a brown coat gesturing toward a woman in a purple robe and green headscarf, both at a round table in a room with statues and figure prints on blue walls. Caption text below reads "The Blue Devils" with dialogue.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- Published as the Act directs, November 11th 1835
- Medium
- Caricatures Lithographs
- Source
- Wellcome Collection
- Size
- 4000 × 3648 px
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection
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