A group of doctors and medical students surround a dying patient. Watercolour attributed to T. Rowlandson.

  • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
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A group of doctors and medical students surround a dying patient. Watercolour attributed to T. Rowlandson. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 painting : watercolour ; image 19.3 x 15.2 cm

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"When once the short lived mortal dies a night eternal seals his eyes." Addison.

References note

Deborah Brunton, Medicine transformed: health, disease and society in Europe 1800-1930, Manchester University Press, 2004, p. 7

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On the reverse of the painting are six lines of verse about "Squire Bluster"

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Wellcome Collection 11732i

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