The company of undertakers [graphic]

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Title: The company of undertakers [graphic]
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Bowles & Carver, map & printsellers, no. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Abstract: A copy in the same direction after the engraving by Hogarth titled 'The Company of Undertakers'. Sixteen heads of doctors, three of whom, in the upper division, are identified as John Taylor, Sarah Mapp, and Joshua Ward; three in the lower centre peer at liquid in a glass phial, the one to left using a pince-nez
Description: Title etched below image.
"Wm. Hogarth del." erased from this impression; surmised from earlier state in the British Museum. See Registration number: 1935,0522.1.40.
Numbered "193" in lower left corner.
Title from British Museum catalogue: A consultation of physicians.
Caption below image begins: "Beareth sable, an urinal proper, between 12 quack-heads of the second & 12 caneheads or consultant ..."
Copy of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2308.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 144.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i, p. 144; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.5 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 37.6 x 27.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Engravings England London 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material: mezzotint with etching in brown ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Eyeglasses
Medical equipment & supplies
Physicians
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Eyeglasses
Medical equipment & supplies
Physicians
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1793
England > London > 1793

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