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Collings, Samuel

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  • A man sits on a high chair in front of a table surrounded by others: they watch two men in the middle of the floor perform a ritual. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after S. Collings.
  • A doctor holding death at bay from his patient: illustrated by him squirting a syringe at a skeletal figure entering via the window. Line engraving by N. Goodnight, 1787, after S. Collings.
  • A doctor holding death at bay from his patient: illustrated by him squirting a syringe at a skeletal figure entering via the window. Line engraving by N. Goodnight, 1787, after S. Collings.
  • Roderick Random (a licentiate from Scotland) facing a board of medical examiners at Surgeons Hall. Coloured aquatint by J. Stadler, 1800, after S. Collings after T. Smollett.
  • Three men dance in the street as a crowd gathers on Blackfriars Bridge, London, to celebrate the destruction by fire of Albion Mills. Etching by J. Barlow, 1791, after S. Collings.
  • Patients undergoing magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after J. Collings.
  • Groups of men sitting at tables smoking and having a merry time: one man has fallen to the floor and spilled his tankard of ale. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after S. Collings.
  • A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat; the terrified patient looks on from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.
  • People in a boxing club having a fist-fight: the chairman in the middle holds up a gavel, and a woman hits a man over the head with a tankard. Etching by J. Barlow, 1789, after S. Collings.
  • Edward V and the Duke of York are about to be murdered in their beds by two assassins. Line engraving by A. Birrell after S. Collings, ca. 1790.
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  • view A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat; the terrified patient looks on from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.
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    A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat; the terrified patient looks on from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.

    Collings, Samuel. | Date: 1803 | Reference: 586040i
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    Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore, a notorious spendthrift and rake, holding a levee: he is attended by his horse-racing and cock-fighting associates and others. Etching by J. Barlow after S. Collings.

    Collings, Samuel. | Date: June 1st 1791 | Reference: 32418i
  • view A doctor holding death at bay from his patient: illustrated by him squirting a syringe at a skeletal figure entering via the window. Line engraving by N. Goodnight, 1787, after S. Collings.
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    A doctor holding death at bay from his patient: illustrated by him squirting a syringe at a skeletal figure entering via the window. Line engraving by N. Goodnight, 1787, after S. Collings.

    Collings, Samuel. | Date: 12 April 1787 | Reference: 11211i
  • view Roderick Random (a licentiate from Scotland) facing a board of medical examiners at Surgeons Hall. Coloured aquatint by J. Stadler, 1800, after S. Collings after T. Smollett.
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    Roderick Random (a licentiate from Scotland) facing a board of medical examiners at Surgeons Hall. Coloured aquatint by J. Stadler, 1800, after S. Collings after T. Smollett.

    Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771. | Date: Publish'd as the Act directs May 12, 1800 | Reference: 10769i
    Part of: Hogarthian Novelist
  • view Edward V and the Duke of York are about to be murdered in their beds by two assassins. Line engraving by A. Birrell after S. Collings, ca. 1790.
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    Edward V and the Duke of York are about to be murdered in their beds by two assassins. Line engraving by A. Birrell after S. Collings, ca. 1790.

    Collings, Samuel. | Date: 1790 | Reference: 42760i
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