[The quack doctor] [graphic].
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17339794
Description
- Title
- [The quack doctor] [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- I have a secret art to cure each malady, which men endure
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
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Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University). - Published / Created
- [1 July 1814]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. July 1- 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
- Abstract
-
"An apothecary's shop, the walls covered by jars closely ranged on shelves, a stuffed fish hanging from the ceiling. Behind a curtain (right) Death, wearing an apron, pounds at a mortar of 'slow Poison', looking gleefully in a mirror to watch the customers. The fat quack compounds medicines at the counter. A grotesque crowd of agonized patients enters through a doorway (left) inscribed 'Apothecaries Hall'. Two sit in arm-chairs. The jars are 'Canthar[ides]', 'Arsnic', 'Opium', 'Nitre', 'Vitriol', 'Elixir', with (right) 'Restorativ Drops'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death.
Couplet etched below image: I have a secret art to cure / each malady, which men endure.
Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 1, opposite page 85.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death -- Pharmacy, interior -- Apothecaries. - Provenance
- Bequest of Clements C. Fry; 1955.
- Extent
- 1 print : image 126 x 200 mm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Print00237
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Illustrations
Book illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1814
Etchings England London 1814
Aquatints England London 1814 - Material
- etching and aquatint ; and hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Combe, William, 1742-1823.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Death (Personification)
Quacks and quackery
Skeletons
Interiors
Drugstores
Pharmacists
Mortars & pestles
Sick persons
Medicines
Shelving
Containers
Mirrors - Subjects
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Combe, William, 1742-1823 > Illustrations
Death (Personification)
Quacks and quackery
Skeletons
Interiors
Drugstores
Pharmacists
Mortars & pestles
Sick persons
Medicines
Shelving
Containers
Mirrors
England > 1814
England > London > 1814
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
- 16201668
- Object ID (OID)
- 17339794
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