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- Creator:
- Austin, William, 1721-1820, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- pubd. as the act directs May 1, 1773.
- Call Number:
- Print10064
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The anatomist overtaken by the watch [in] carrying off Miss W-ts in a hamper [graphic].