A going! A going!!! [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1813?]eng"A doctor (left), grotesquely obese, stands in profile regarding with a satisfied smile his dead or dying patient, who leans back in an arm-chair with closed eyes. The patient, old and emaciated, wears night-cap and dressing-gown over breeches and stockings. Behind him are the curtains of his bed (right). At his side is a round table with a bowl, medicine-bottle, and a paper: 'Prescriptions, Bolus, Blisters'. On the ledge of a casement window is a close array of medicine-bottles. The doctor says: "My Dear Sir you look this Morning the Picture of health I have no doubt at my next visit I shall find you intirely cured of all your earthly infirmitys." He wears old-fashioned dress, with tricorne hat and gold-headed cane. A fat woman stands in the doorway (left), her hands clasped."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Reissue, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate. For an earlier reissue with imprint intact except for a scratched-out year of publication, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 813.06.10.01.1+. For the earliest state with imprint completely intact (the year "1809" not obscured) and with the variant plate number "95" etched in upper left, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10.Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego.Plate numbered "291" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.9 x 33.6 cm.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Watermark, partially trimmed: 1819.Mounted on leaf 58 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.