Mutual accusation [graphic]

Description

Title: Mutual accusation [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: 3d January 1774.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by Bretherton
Abstract: Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description: Title etched below image.
Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause.
Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life.
Mounted on page 89 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 23.7 x 30.2 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 234 x 299 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English