The doctor dismissing Death [graphic]

Description

Title: The doctor dismissing Death [graphic]
Creator: Simon, John Peter, -approximately 1810, printmaker
Contributor: Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812, printmaker.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
Published / Created: [15 September 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Septr. 15th, 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Description: Title engraved below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
For a reversed copy, see no. 7608 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; sheet 31.1 x 36.1 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement.
Later impression from a worn plate.
Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.4 x 40 cm, on sheet 34.9 x 40 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Aquatints England London 1785
Material: etching and aquatint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1785
England > London > 1785
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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