Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured stipple engraving after L. Boilly, c. 1823.
- Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.
- Date:
- [1823]
- Reference:
- 16318i
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- Grimaces
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"1760" refers to the time of the ancien régime and contrasts the picture with another of Boilly's 'Grimaces' series bearing the same title, but a different date, 1823. It shows a group of fashionable young doctors and can be seen in Wellcome Library no. 16325i
Publication/Creation
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1823]
Physical description
1 print : stipple engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 30.1 x 23 cm.
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A medical consultation. 1760
Notes
'Grimaces' is the title of a series of 92 lithographs designed by Boilly between 1823 and 1828, "reissued by the Maison Aubert in 1837 as 'Groupes physionomiques connus sous le nom de grimaces par Boilly'. 200-300 exemplars of first edition, up to 1000 on a few. Also issued in more limited editions in London." (Judith Wechsler, 'A Human Comedy', Thames and Hudson, London 1982, p. 194)
References note
Not found in: Étienne Bréton and Pascal Zuber, Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761-1845: le peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, Paris: Arthena, 2019 (but English publications of Boilly's Grimaces mentioned in vol. I, p. 309)
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Wellcome Collection 16318i
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