Macbeth and the doctor, or, Sawney in a fever [graphic].

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Title: Macbeth and the doctor, or, Sawney in a fever [graphic].
Alternative Title: Sawney in a fever
Contributor: Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787, publisher.
Published / Created: 1763.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by E. Sumpter, three doors from Shoe-Lane, Fleet-Street ...
Description: Title from letterpress caption above verses, below image.
Two columns of dialogue between Sawney and his doctor, separated by a vertical ornamental line: Tis reported that Sawney was taken so ill, that in haste he sent forth for his friend Doctor Pill ...
Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... where may be had, just published, The proclamation of proclamations, or, The devil of a peace; The devil to pay, or, State indifference, ...
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Bed with canopy -- Tripod table -- Trades: quacks -- Medicines: 'Bardana' for gout, 'Waterdock', 'Balsam of honey' -- Diseases: scurvy -- Invalids -- Devil -- Literature: allusion to Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
Mounted to 35 x 45 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 34 x 20 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1763
Etchings England London 1763
Broadsides England 1763
Material: etching ;
Subject (Name): Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Subjects: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hill, John, 1714?-1775 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1763
England > London > 1763

Access: Public
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