The family physician [graphic].

Description

Title: The family physician [graphic].
Contributor: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, artist.
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 20th Jany., 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title etched above image.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Plate numbered '256' in lower left corner.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Picture caption: Oh! my dear Doctor I am very bad. I do not know what is the matter with me. I eat well, drink well and I sleep well ...
Artist from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Family physicians -- Chinese Buddha statue -- Medical procedures -- Taking pulse -- Medical implements -- Cooking in fireplaces -- Fireplace equipment -- Tongs -- Dentelated mantels.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ix; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.9 x 24.5 cm, on sheet 22 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Stipple engravings England London 1801
Material: etching, engraving, & stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1801
England > London > 1801

Access: Public
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