print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.10.10
- Title
- Object: A going! A going!
- Description
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A doctor (left), grotesquely obese, stands in profile regarding with a satisfied smile his dead or dying patient, who leans back in an arm-chair with closed eyes. The patient, old and emaciated, wears night-cap and dressing-gown over breeches and stockings. Behind him are the curtains of his bed (right). At his side is a round table with a bowl, medicine-bottle, and a paper: 'Prescriptions, Bolus, Blisters'. On the ledge of a casement window is a close array of medicine-bottles. The doctor says: "My Dear Sir you look this Morning the Picture of health I have no doubt at my next visit I shall find you intirely cured of all your earthly infirmitys." He wears old-fashioned dress, with tricorne hat and gold-headed cane. A fat woman stands in the doorway (left), her hands clasped. Cf. No. 11111.
Plate numbered 291.
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1809-1813
- Dimensions
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Height: 247 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 350 millimetres (cropped)
- $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', IX, 1949)
Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 267.
(Supplementary information)
Date erased; George suggests that the date of the print may be 1813, but Alexander gives 10th June 1809.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.10.10
