A doctor and his friends [graphic]

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Title: A doctor and his friends [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University).
Published / Created: Octr. 6, 1798.
Publication Place: Lond[o]n
Publisher: Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Abstract: A man with a gouty foot sits at a table on which a caraffe and decanter sit with a glass. The figure of the devil sits in an upholsered armchair grinning at the man as he pours a glass of liquid on his head. To their right a skeleton on a three-legged stool is engaged in conversation with a clergy man, both holding glasses of wine. Between the pairs above their heads is written, "A fig for sack & sherry, Our cans we'll clink. Our liquor we'll drink, And we'll be wonderous merry."
Description: Title from item.
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death -- Demons & devils.
Provenance: Clements C. Fry.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 240 x 362 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Material: etching ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Death (Personification)
Gout
Alcoholic beverages
Devil
Physicians
Pitchers
Sick persons
Skeletons
Stools
Undertakers
Subjects: Death (Personification)
Gout
Alcoholic beverages
Devil
Physicians
Pitchers
Sick persons
Skeletons
Stools
Undertakers
England > 1798
England > London > 1798

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