Title from text below image., Date of production based on artist's death date., Text on right, "Price One Shilling, by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside"., On wall a poster reads, "A COURSE OF ANATOMICAL LECTURES accompanied with dissections will be delivered tommorrow Even[ing] by Professor Sawbone[s]"., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Anatomists, Surgical instruments and apparatus, Human skeleton, and Grave robbing
"A lean man (right) wearing a doctor's tie-wig, is running from left to right to escape from a watchman who stands (left) springing his rightattle. On the ground is a basket or hamper, the lid of which has fallen open to show the body of a young woman in a shroud. A short irate man (centre) points at the escaping figure, turning towards the lean aged watchman, who holds in his left hand a large lantern, and a tall stick, whose head is carved to represent a head. In the watchman's hat, which is tied on with a scarf, is a tobacco pipe in full blast. The fleeing Anatomist holds a tall cane in his left hand; under his left arm is a dilapidated skull. He has dropped a paper inscribed "Hunter's Lectur[es]", showing that he is Dr. William Hunter (1718-83), the great anatomist. He built a house (1770) in Great Windmill Street to which were attached a dissecting room, lecture room, and a large museum, see British Museum Satires No. 6128. The caricature deals with the body-snatching for the sale of corpses to surgeons, which went on to a considerable extent in this period."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image; the word "in" after "watch" has been mostly burnished from plate., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Eighth plate in the series: Nature display'd both serious and comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esqr., Plate numbered '8' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Medical., 1 print : etching ; sheet 270 x 402 mm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hunter, William, 1718-1783
Subject (Topic):
Grave robbing, Anatomists, Lanterns, Watchmen, Staffs (Sticks), Baskets, and Dead persons
"A lean man (right) wearing a doctor's tie-wig, is running from left to right to escape from a watchman who stands (left) springing his rightattle. On the ground is a basket or hamper, the lid of which has fallen open to show the body of a young woman in a shroud. A short irate man (centre) points at the escaping figure, turning towards the lean aged watchman, who holds in his left hand a large lantern, and a tall stick, whose head is carved to represent a head. In the watchman's hat, which is tied on with a scarf, is a tobacco pipe in full blast. The fleeing Anatomist holds a tall cane in his left hand; under his left arm is a dilapidated skull. He has dropped a paper inscribed "Hunter's Lectur[es]", showing that he is Dr. William Hunter (1718-83), the great anatomist. He built a house (1770) in Great Windmill Street to which were attached a dissecting room, lecture room, and a large museum, see British Museum Satires No. 6128. The caricature deals with the body-snatching for the sale of corpses to surgeons, which went on to a considerable extent in this period."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image; the word "in" after "watch" has been mostly burnished from plate., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Eighth plate in the series: Nature display'd both serious and comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esqr., Plate numbered '8' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Medical., and The word "in" in title erased from this impression.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hunter, William, 1718-1783
Subject (Topic):
Grave robbing, Anatomists, Lanterns, Watchmen, Staffs (Sticks), Baskets, and Dead persons
Title devised by curator., Date of production based on artist's death date., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Anatomists, Surgical instruments and apparatus, Human skeleton, and Grave robbing
