A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, she views it suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Colour stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.

London (corner of Arundel Street, Strand) : J. Cary, engraver, map & print-seller, 25 March 1786.

1 print : stipple engraving, printed in sanguine ; platemark 50.3 x 37.6 cm

A country doctor giving a bolus to a patient. Drawn by Mr. H. Taylor ; Engraved by J. Cary.

Wellcome Collection 22184i

After, or related to, a watercolour of the same composition, offered for sale by Samuel Gedge in 2012 ( Samuel Gedge Ltd. Rare books, catalogue XIV, 2021, no. 77) :"Initialled "RT" and dated 1784 at foot. Dimensions 34.5 x 42 cm ... A red-coated Georgian doctor dispensing medicine to a patient ... A print is pasted on the wall of the room, bearing the text "man may escape from rope and gun, nay some have outliv'd the doctor's pill", drawn from Gay's Beggar's opera. The artist "RT" may be Richard Taylor, active in London between 1743 and 1796"