An obese doctor acknowledging the favours of a French chef in his kitchen; denoting their complicity, the chef's food providing patients. Coloured etching by C. Williams, c. 1815.

  • Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.
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c. 1815
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10937i
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An obese doctor acknowledging the favours of a French chef in his kitchen; denoting their complicity, the chef's food providing patients. Coloured etching by C. Williams, c. 1815. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[London] (111 Cheapside) : T. Tegg, c. 1815.

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 25 x 34.8 cm

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The physicians friend. ... Lettering continues: "'Some mans wit. Found th'art of cookery to delight his sense. More bodies are consum'd and kill'd with it. Than with than with the sword, famine or pestilence.' Davis"

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. IX, London 1949, no. 12648

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Wellcome Collection 10937i

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