A doctor taking the pulse of a gouty bachelor surrounded by the consequences of his life style. Mezzotint, ca. 1770.

Date:
[1770?]
Reference:
11198i
  • Pictures
  • Online

Available online

view A doctor taking the pulse of a gouty bachelor surrounded by the consequences of his life style. Mezzotint, ca. 1770.

Public Domain Mark

You can use this work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law. Read more about this licence.

Credit

A doctor taking the pulse of a gouty bachelor surrounded by the consequences of his life style. Mezzotint, ca. 1770. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Selected images from this work

View 1 image

About this work

Publication/Creation

London (69 St. Pauls Church Yard) : Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, [1770?]

Physical description

1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 35.2 x 25 cm

Lettering

The miseries of a single life. The batchelor monopolizes ills. Quacks, bailiffs, bastards, bolusses and pills. But more than those, heres gout to make him fret. And forc'd to father what he could not get. Bears number lower left : 310

References note

A coloured version of this print is described in: British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. IV, London 1883, no. 4540 (dated c. 1770)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 11198i

Type/Technique

Languages

Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores

Permanent link