Bransby Blake Cooper, acquiring gold coins by his appointment to Guy's Hospital, is attacked by a lancet, representing the journal The lancet and its editor Thomas Wakley. Coloured etching by W. Heath (Paul Pry), 182-.

  • Heath, William, 1795-1840.
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1820-1829
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2057i
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Bransby Blake Cooper, acquiring gold coins by his appointment to Guy's Hospital, is attacked by a lancet, representing the journal The lancet and its editor Thomas Wakley. Coloured etching by W. Heath (Paul Pry), 182-. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[London] (26 Haymarket, where political and other caricatures are daily pub[lished]) : T. McLean

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1 print : etching, with watercolour

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Barney the Cooper, or the head of the Guy's performing his last operation.

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. XI, London 1954, no. 15572
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 669.4

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Wellcome Collection 2057i

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