print;
document
- Museum number
- Cc,1.250
- Description
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A certificate of attendance for the practice of surgery as a pupil at the London Infirmary, and for attendance on courses on anatomy and attendance to the institutes and operations of surgery; the headpiece, after Hogarth, shows Christ seated at left in the company of his disciples, gesturing to a hospital in the distance, two figures being carried towards the door on stretchers; at top centre, the arms of Charles, Duke of Richmond.
Etching and engraved lettering
- Production date
- 1742-1750 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 352 millimetres
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Width: 245 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See also Cc,1.252, a later state in which the generic hospital view in this state has been changed to the modern London Hospital. The date can be narrowed down from the dedication to 'Charles Duke of Richmond Lenox & Aubigny President.': he became President of the London Hospital in November 1741 and died in 1750. There is also a print of the same scene by Grignion, which was used as the headpiece to 'An Account of the Rise, Progress, and State of the London-Infirmary' (1745) and 'Instructions to a Governor of the London-Hospital, or Infirmary'; see Cc,1.251 (Paulson 227.a).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1827 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on S,2.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Cc,1.250