The Gout, 1799, by Gillray. A full-time caricaturist, Gillray (1757-1815) created more than 1,500 works, many political. His favorite victims were George III and Napoleon. "It is usual to think of Gillray," wrote British historian Dorothy George, "as the most savagely uninhibited of English caricaturists." He slipped into madness at the end of his life and was cared for by his publisher, Miss Hanna Humphrey.
Courtesy of the Harvard Medical Library/Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.