A policeman, sternly pugnacious, stands on a pavement in 'Saint Giles' (a lamp-post is so inscribed), between a barefooted boy and a well-dressed man. The latter (right) makes a gesture of denial, but holds behind him a wallet, evidently passed to him by his boy accomplice who has been seized in the act of picking a pocket, that of a dandy absorbed in a wall-placard (right) headed '[Ch]olera Morbus Board of Health' [see BM Satires No. 16955]. Below the title: 'The Symptoms are generally known by its sudden unexpected and griping attacks by which the persons seized are deprived of free exertion their eyes become fixed and so they're carried off, looking blue' [see BM Satires No. 16954].  6 Augsut 1832
<br>Lithograph, partly hand-coloured
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<p>Print made by: Monogrammist HHR
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<dl><dd>Published by: W Harrison Isaacs</dd></dl></div>
1832<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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