The sailor and the quack doctor!! [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The sailor and the quack doctor!! [graphic]
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Contributor
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Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University). - Published / Created
- [1807?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
-
A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner. The sailor describes his medical history in nautical terms. He refers to a skeleton suspended in a cupboard as the doctor's "messmate".
"Sailor and quack face each other in a consulting room. The sailor (left) has a clumsy bandage over forehead, one eye, and left cheek; he is dressed as in British Museum Satires No. 10894; under his arm is a cudgel, and in his hand a paper headed 'List of Cures'. Behind him (left) is an open cupboard containing a tall skeleton with goggling eye-sockets. With forefinger raised, warily pugnacious, he says: "You must know Doctor I have got a bit of a Confusion on my larboard cheek from a chance shot, and as I dont think it of consequence enough for our Ship's surgeon, I bore down to you, after overhauling a long list of your cures - but I suppose front the messmate in the Cabin there, you dont always make a return of the Killed and Wounded?" The doctor, in old-fashioned dress and wig, leans towards him with extended forefinger, saying, "Sir, my rule of practice is this, there is pen, ink, and paper, - sign a certificate of your cure, and I'll take you in hand immediately on paying down two Guineas!" A table with writing materials stands against the wall; on the floor is a crudely patterned carpet."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark. - Provenance
- Clements C. Fry.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 23.5 x 33.5 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Print00159
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807 - Material
- etching ; and hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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Great Britain
Great Britain. - Subject (Topic)
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Quacks and quackery
Skeleton
Costume
Sailors
Jargon (Terminology)
Medical equipment & supplies
Nightsticks
Quacks
Skeletons
Writing materials - Subjects
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Quacks and quackery
Skeleton
Costume > Great Britain > 19th century
Sailors
Jargon (Terminology)
Costume
Medical equipment & supplies
Nightsticks
Quacks
Skeletons
Writing materials
Great Britain
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16041375
- Object ID (OID)
- 17339085