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- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [...] [not before 9 November 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.11.09.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A greedy medical practitioner demanding a leg of bacon for payment from a poor family and "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., and Plate numbered "487" in lower left.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Quacks and quackery, Avarice, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Clothing & dress, Diseases, Families, Poverty, Quacks, Bacon, Children, Costume, Country life, and Sick
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rapacious quack [graphic].
