"Satire on the professions of medicine, law and the church with three practitioners in a well furnished interior disputing which is the superior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document; the clergyman a book letterd "Bals. Soul" and the physicial a phial lettered, "Bals. Life". Pictures on the wall show, men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tythes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside. Verses below with scrolling calligraphic decoration."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., and Sixteen lines of verse in two columns below title: Law, physick, and divinity, contend which shall superior be ...
