A physician called out of bed by a hoax night call. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 18--.

  • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
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[between 1800 and 1899]
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650872i
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A physician called out of bed by a hoax night call. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 18--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A manservant brings the physician his coat and gold-topped cane, and an umbrella. A young man hides under the bed, so that when the physician is called away by the hoax night call, the man can join the physician's wife in bed

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[London?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1800 and 1899]

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; sheet 22.7 x 26.8 cm

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The doctor called up or the false alarm. T. Rowlandson delt.

References note

J. Grego, Rowlandson the caricaturist, London 1880 (no mention of this work found)
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires (no mention of this work found in vols. VII-X)

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Wellcome Collection 650872i

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