A physician by his patient's death-bed; represented with a skeletal death figure at the window and an undertaker's assistant arriving with a coffin. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813?, after R. Newton.
- Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.
- Date:
- 1813
- Reference:
- 11215i
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Below the physician is the caption: "I purge I bleed I sweat em, then if they die I lets em", an epigram on the Quaker Dr. Lettsom
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[London] (111 Cheapside) : Thos. Tegg
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 24.5 x 34.8 cm
Lettering
Giving up the ghost or one too many. R. Newton del. ; Rowlandson scul.
Bears number: 292
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. IX, London 1949, no. 12153
Reference
Wellcome Collection 11215i
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