print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1873,0712.861
- Title
- Object: Physician and pupil.
- Description
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See BMSat 10659. A youth in ill-fitting clothes of fashionable intention holds the pulse of an elderly invalid, lying in a truckle bed, whom he regards with a knowing grin. Patient and a stout woman look at the embryo doctor in astonishment. Under the bed are a saddle and some oyster shells. Below the design: 'A Physician once took a Pupil with him to visit a Patient, when having felt his Pulse, he told him he might expect to be much worse, for he had been eating Oysters; his Pupil was astonish'd at his discernment and . . . [afterwards] enquir'd . . . how he knew . . .; "because" said the Doctor "I saw the Shells under the Bed." - the next day the Student went alone . . . but immediately hurried out of the House, & running home ... exclaim'd "Sir, Sir, this man will certainly kill himself, for he has eat a Horse" "Impossible"! said the Doctor, "he has indeed Sir . . . for I saw the Bridle and Saddle under the Bed." c.1806
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1806
- Dimensions
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Height: 174 millimetres
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Width: 241 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1873,0712.861
