A man-mid-wife [graphic].

Description

Title: A man-mid-wife [graphic].
Alternative Title: Man-midwife
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Abstract: An etching showing a single human form with the left half shown as a male apothecary and on the right a housewife. She is shown standing on a rug before a cooking fire with a saucepan. He is shown with shelves of bottles behind him
Description: Title etched below image.
After Isaac Cruikshank; see British Museum catalogue.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Four lines of text following the title, etched below it: ... or a newly discover'd animal, not known in Buffon's time ...
Temporary local subject terms: Male midwives -- Obstetricians -- Allusion to Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, 1707-1788 -- Literature: allusion to Man-Midwife Dissected -- Saucepans -- Grates: domestic grates -- Midwifery -- Bipartite figures -- Medical instruments: obstetrics -- Surgeons' dispensaries.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki; February 1961;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 27 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Stipple engravings England London 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Material: etching with stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Midwives
Pharmacists
Mortars & pestles
Medical equipment & supplies
Subjects: Midwives
Pharmacists
Mortars & pestles
Medical equipment & supplies
England > 1795
England > London > 1795

Access: Public
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