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., and Watermark: 1817.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 421); three-quarter length seated in ecclesiastical robes, looking to left, holding a paper on his lap in both hands."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
William Howley, D.D. F.R.S. : Lord Bishop of London
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger; alternative title from later state., Early (proof?) state, with production details only. For a later state with title and imprint added, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.5597., Publication information inferred from imprint on later state: London, Pubd. July 28, 1817, by Messrs. Colnaghi & Co., Cockspur Street, Haymarket., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text from bottom edge., Bound in before page 559 (leaf numbered '150' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Manuscript title "William Howley - Archbishop of Canterbury" in ink below image.
