Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Doctors differ.
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00726
Identifier
ark:/88435/tx31qr80p
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 13.3 x 20.5 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A12
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: Interior scene. Room with invalid on right in chair, three men and nurse brawl in center; on left man flees room; figure on stairs in background.
Unsigned.
The title "When doctors differ, patients die", was a popular saying. From the format and style probably intended as a design for the 1807-08 Miseries of Human Life but never made into a print. There is a much earlier stipple engraving after Rowlandson wi.

Discovery Information

Subject
Anger—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Physician and patient—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Nurses—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature
Affray—Great Britain—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/97412269-6010-4f41-8a11-139a4d8b61cb/manifest