A farmer duping a doctor. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.

  • Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.
Date:
June 1823
Reference:
10967i
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Medical scraps
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London (41 Piccadilly) : S.W. Fores, June 1823.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour.

Lettering

A Shropshire bargin or the doctor bit. ... Williams Lettering continues: "No demand! did you not say if I would attend your wife you had five pounds you would give me kill or cure"; "Yes sure, but she is dead so thee did not cure her." "It was not in the power of medicine to do it"; "did'st thee kill her then?" "certainly not" "thee hast no claim upon me then! so yee mun walk off doctor."

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. X, London 1952, no. 14917

Reference

Wellcome Collection 10967i

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