A coloured etching by Robert Cruikshank depicting a distressed cholera patient experimenting with various remedies, ca. 1832.
Featured on PDR in the essay Laughter in the Time of Cholera
Political instability, popular unrest, and an impending pandemic? Welcome to France in the early 1830s. Vlad Solomon explores what made Parisians laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play.
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A Cholera Patient
Artist
Date
1832
Image Size
1298 x 1526