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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Gillray, 1796.

Date

7 May 1796

Reference

16602i

A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.

Reference

11867i

A French physician on his rounds with his entourage. Etching by J. Caldwell, 1771, after M. Brandoin.

Date

Published as the Act directs 20 October 1771

Reference

10943i

A disgruntled physician wearing a legal wig and gown(?). Etching, 1771.

Date

Pubd. according to Act of Parlt. 3 October 1771

Reference

10945i

Part of

24 caricatures by several ladies gentlemen artists

A deputation of dissolute surgeons to the Lord Chancellor. Coloured etching by G.M. Woodward, 1797.

Date

7 August 1797

Reference

10780i

A grumpy physician taking the pulse of an alarmed man. Coloured etching.

Reference

11220i

Three affluent doctors congratulating themselves on their profession. Coloured mezzotint, 1793, after Robert Dighton.

Date

Published as the Act directs 4 June 1793

Reference

10771i

Tom Ruby being tricked by six friends into thinking he is suffering from the 'sweating sickness', thereby missing his feast. Coloured line engraving, 1799, after Nixon (?).

Date

2 December 1799

Reference

11637i

Bonnell Thornton lying ill in bed, consulting three physicians and pointing out their inadequacies. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams.

Reference

11631i

Hordes of infirm people with crutches and wheelchairs making their way down the hill to Bath from the Royal Crescent. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson.

Reference

11910i

Part of

Tegg's caricatures

Pretty gentlemen : macaroni men and the eighteenth-century fashion world / Peter McNeil.

Date

2018

Roderick Random (a licentiate from Scotland) facing a board of medical examiners at Surgeons Hall. Coloured aquatint by J. Stadler, 1800, after S. Collings after T. Smollett.

Date

Publish'd as the Act directs May 12, 1800

Reference

10769i

Part of

Hogarthian Novelist

An angry doctor in night clothes shouting at an alarmed man. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1774, after H. Wigstead.

Date

8 June 1774

Reference

11206i

A doctor being tricked into drinking his own medicine. Engraving, 1784.

Date

1 October 1784

Reference

10974i

A man sits outside a window to smoke and drink, his servant waits behind him. Stipple engraving by Sailliar, mid-18th century, after G. Dou.

Reference

24840i

William Pitt the younger consults the doctor John Bull on his failing health. Coloured aquatint, 1798.

Date

1798

Reference

12186i

A obstetrician dressed in a grand manner, wearing a sword and carrying a tall cane. Etching, 1773.

Date

Pub accord to Act. Oct.r 21 1773

Reference

10944i

Dr. John Burges, on tiptoe outside a building in Warwick Lane. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1795.

Date

3 July 1795

Reference

10931i

A doctor prescribing continuation of treatment to his reluctant patient. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1799, after G.M. Woodward.

Date

10 September 1799

Reference

11061i

Part of

Countrey characters

Three women huddle eagerly around a medicine bottle; perhaps connected with pregnancy. Mezzotint by T. Scratchley, 1771.

Date

Pub. according to Act of Parl. 24 March 1771

Reference

10778i

Four Georgian gentlemen sit in their club seriously engaged in smoking. Engraving with stipple by H. Bunbury, 1794.

Date

15 March 1794

Reference

25446i

A seated man smoking with a tankard on the table by his side. Reproduction of an etching by A. Pajou, 1878 (?), after J. L. Meissonier, 1858.

Date

1858

Reference

24856i

A woman dying in the arms of her family, an unhappy doctor leaves the room realising that it is his final payment. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1786.

Date

1 April 1786

Reference

11214i

Patients undergoing magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after J. Collings.

Date

1 January 1790

Reference

11827i

A woman withdrawing her foot in outrage from the care of a corn-cutter who has pretensions to be called a chiropodist. Coloured engraving, 1793.

Date

20 November 1793

Reference

10973i