[A satire on quacks and quackery] [graphic].

Description

Title: [A satire on quacks and quackery] [graphic].
Contributor: Hemskirk, E., artist.
Toms, W. H. approximately 1700-approximately 1750.
Published / Created: [1766?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on an advertisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766.
Original etched by W.H. Toms.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Behold how in the colledge [sic] hall, the surgeons and the doctors all, are met in consultation wise, a carcase [sic] to anatomize ...
Slightly reduced copy in reverse, without attribution, and with different verses, of No. 1861 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Temporary local subject terms: Quacks -- Dissections -- Containers: tubs -- Furniture: butcher's block -- Carcasses: pig -- Carcasses: cat -- Hares.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 28.8 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 34 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1730
Etchings England London 1766
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Bats
Cats
Crocodiles
Dead animals
Donkeys
Fish
Frogs
Monkeys
Rabbits
Skeletons
Skulls
Swine
Subjects: Bats
Cats
Crocodiles
Dead animals
Donkeys
Fish
Frogs
Monkeys
Rabbits
Skeletons
Skulls
Swine
England > 1730
England > London > 1766

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