print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.3516
- Title
- Object: Mr Petit a French Surgeon sent from Paris to Doctor Meagre
- Description
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An interior with (1) "Mr Petit a French Surgeon sent from Paris to Doctor Meagre to take an exact Account from him of ye Praeternatural Delivery of Rabbets" (a reference to Mary Toft's fraud) entering through a door on the right and bowing elegantly as he presents a letter to (2) "Doctor Meagre" a tall thin man supporting himself on a stick. (3) A young boy, the doctor's son Edmund, stands behind holding the hand of (4) "Mr Dipthong" his tutor. To the left is (5) a table, on which rest a flask and glass and a dish of pill; two large barrels beneath are labelled, "Gallenus" and "Hipocrates". On the wall behind are two pictures, on the right, (6) showing a duel between "the Doctor & a Flower Painter at Slaughter's Coffee house", and, on the left, (7) "Another Incounter at Swords between the Doctor & a famous French Gramarian, a long Table standing between the Champions". A young black servant opens the door, on which is written "No Cure, No Mony".
Etching
- Production date
- 1726 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 millimetres
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Width: 225 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- In a manuscript annotation Hawkins identifies the doctor as Nathaniel St André, but his appearance is close to that of Jean Misaubin whose name, according to Stephens, is annotated on an impression in the Willet collection.
The print is clearly by the same hand as BM Satire 1694, presumably John Clark himself.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.3516