print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.7242
- Title
- Object: Breathing a vein.
- Description
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See BMSat 10304. The patient sits on a stool, averting his head from the surgeon who supports his left. arm, from which the blood spurts into a bowl. The operator wears spurred top-boots, and has a bucolic appearance suggesting a veterinary surgeon. The patient wears a nightcap and buttoned waistcoat over his shirt. 28 January 1804
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1804
- Dimensions
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Height: 265 millimetres
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Width: 200 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
Wright and Evans, No. 483. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.7242