A doctor in Purgatory!!! [graphic]

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Title: A doctor in Purgatory!!! [graphic]
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [30 January 1802]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Jany. 30, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Abstract: "Satire: frightened doctor surrounded by ghoulish figures with medical implements, saws and medicines, one bleeding him, another offering a pill; with verse below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a reversed version of the same design
Description: Title etched below image.
A reversed version of this G.M. Woodward design, etched by Richard Newton and aquatinted by John Hassell, was published by William Holland on 11 November 1792. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2001,0520.23.
Six lines of verse beneath title: Those spectres seam'd with scars that threaten there, the victims of my late ill conduct are; ... Garth's Dispensary, Canto VI.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Garth's Dispensary.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 46.9 x 38.0 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Aquatints England London 1802
Material: aquatint ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Physicians
Phlebotomy
Medical equipment & supplies
Saws
Subjects: Physicians
Phlebotomy
Medical equipment & supplies
Saws
England > 1802
England > London > 1802

Access: Public
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