The benevolent physician [graphic].

Description

Contributor

Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.

Published / Created

published as the act directs [...] [not before 9 November 1782]

Publication Place

London

Publisher

Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London

Abstract

A generous physician refusing money for services rendered from a poor family

"The interior of a room showing no trace of actual poverty. The invalid, a man, fully dressed but wearing a nightcap, sits in an upholstered arm-chair by the fire. A little girl stands at his knee; at his side on a tray or table are two bowls and a medicine bottle labelled 'as before'. The physician, a well-dressed man wearing a bag-wig, is about to leave the room (right); he puts coins into the hand of a young woman holding an infant. The room is papered, a half-tester bed with curtains stands against the wall. Tea-things are ranged along the chimney-piece, over which is a framed picture of a Christ healing the blind man."--British Museum online catalogue

Description

Title engraved below image.
A publication date of 1783 was originally suggested in the British Museum catalogue; however, the British Museum has since acquired an impression with an intact publication date of "9 Novr. 1782." See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.837.
Description based on an imperfect impression; publication date erased from sheet.
Four lines of verse in two columns beneath title: The benevolent physician takes no fee, of those that need him much in poverty. To poor distress'd, and those of small estate, he money gives, takes only of the great.
Companion print to: The rapacious quack.
Plate numbered "486" in lower left.

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