The doctor administering his gilded pill [graphic].

Description

Title: The doctor administering his gilded pill [graphic].
Creator: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [29 March 1802]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. March 29, 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Five lines of quotation below title: I need not take up your time by a description of the Income Tax. You are already perfectly acquainted with its features ...
Temporary local subject terms: Income taxes -- City of London's Common Hall -- Food: Sugar loaves -- Income tax as medicine pills -- Benjamin Traver's Address, City of London -- Repeal of the income tax petition.
Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 33 x 22.3 cm, on sheet 36 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Etchings England London 1802
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Travers, Benjamin.
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
Subject (Topic): John Bull (Symbolic character)
Physicians
Subjects: Travers, Benjamin
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844 > Caricatures and cartoons
John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
Physicians
England > 1802
England > London > 1802

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