The rapacious quack [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 greedy medical practitioner demanding a leg of bacon for payment 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 approximately 1760, later amended to 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.: 2010,7081.3161.
Description based on an imperfect impression; publication date erased from sheet.
Four lines of verse in two columns beneath title: The rapacious quack quite vext to find, his patient poor, and so forsaken; a thought soon sprung up in his mind, to take away a piece of bacon.
Companion print to: The benevolent physician.
Plate numbered "487" in lower left.

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