A man designated as a physician called Garth. Oil painting.

Reference:
578826i
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Description

Half-length to right holding cane. Later 18th-century costume, therefore not a likeness of the physician Samuel Garth (1660-1719), though possibly intended as such by the author of the inscriptin on the stretcher

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 70 x 54.5 cm

Lettering

Ink inscription on back of stretcher copied on to label stuck on back of stretcher: "Dr Garth the eminent physician by W. Hogarth"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 578826i

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