Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A visit to the doctor.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 20/Normal/Prints/Titles V-Z GA 2014.00546
Identifier
ark:/88435/2j62sc965
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1827
Extent
1 item ; sheet 25.6 x 40.2 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 236
Tegg no. 67
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Later issue: 3 copies, 1 unmounted, 1 mounted, 1 in R1807.5F v.1,[Tegg No.] 208 "by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside Woodward del. "Rowlandson Scul.".
Depiction: The consulting-room of a learned physician. An imposing bookcase fills the background. The doctor's man has just shown up a comfortable looking couple, who have called for the benefit of the physician's advice. The practitioner is one of the old school, full-bottomed wig, powder, and pigtail, a learnedly long-skirted square-cut suit, lace frill and ruffles, huge spectacles, and a professional gold-headed cane held up to the nose. He is standing on the hearthrug warming his learned back at the fireplace. Above the mantlepiece is a bust of Galen.
Depiction: The patients, who are evidently robust country folks, thus set forth their case: "Do you see, Doctor, my dame and I be come to ax your advice - we both of us eat well, and drink well, and sleep well, - yet still we be somewhat queerish!" The Doctor is equal to the emergency and prepared to alter all this promptly. "You eat well, you drink well, and you sleep well, - very good. You were perfectly right in coming to me, for depend upon it I will give you something that shall do away with all these things!"
Campus holdings: Additional copy in R1807.51F.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Woodward del.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson scul.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Physician and patient—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Quacks and quakery—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Medicine—Great Britain—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bf43f745-00ac-4a88-8bac-abe897423c2b/manifest