Consultation of physicians [graphic]

Description

Title: Consultation of physicians [graphic]
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1817]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: A group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. A version of the print also published with lettering "The company of undertakers". The three named quacks occupy the top, twelve other 'doctors' are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal while another holds it.
Description: Title engraved below image.
Date of publication from watermark.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Plate numbered "138" in lower left corner.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 144.
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2299.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: 1817.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; January 2021.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15.0 x 11.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English