The doctor snatching at the guinea after his patient is dead [graphic].

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Title: The doctor snatching at the guinea after his patient is dead [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [6 March 1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 6th March 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library.
From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls.
Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Oh, let me die in peace! Eumenes cried ...
Above title in lower right corner: Vide Philosophical Transactions of I. Schamburgh.
Plate numbered '209' in lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedrooms -- Furniture: closed stools -- Physicians -- Patients -- Creditors -- Domestic service: maidservant -- Architectural details: staircases -- Lighting: lanterns -- Medicinal: medicine bottles.
Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Engravings England London 1798
Watermarks (Paper) Russell & Co. 1799
Material: etching & engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1798
England > London > 1798
Russell & Co. > 1799

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