[Macbeth and the doctor, or, Sawney in a fever] [graphic].

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Title: [Macbeth and the doctor, or, Sawney in a fever] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Sawney in a fever
Contributor: Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787, publisher.
Published / Created: [1763]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: E. Sumpter
Description: Title from the broadside edition with verses.
Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published.
Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763.
Another state. Cf. No. 4040 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Furniture: bed with canopy -- Tripod table -- Trades: quacks -- Medicines: 'Bardana' for gout, 'Waterdock', 'Balsam of honey' -- Diseases: scurvy -- Invalids -- Devil -- Literature: allusion to Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.5 x 19.1 cm, on sheet 19 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1763
Etchings England London 1763
Book illustrations
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Subjects: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hill, John, 1714?-1775 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1763
England > London > 1763

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