Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Medical dispatch or Doctor Doubledose killing two birds with one stone.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 11/Normal/Prints/Titles La-Mi GA 2014.00350
Identifier
ark:/88435/4x51hs13x
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1827
Extent
1 item ; sheet 39.8 x 25.4 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 194 (Nov. 20, 1810)
Tegg no. 47
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson del.".
Depiction: Reclining back in an armchair is an old invalid lady, evidently at the last gasp. Her end is made still more certain by opium and composing draughts placed ready to her hand. On the armchair of the ghastly sufferer leans a pretty buxom girl in the flush of womanhood, who is wavering between grief and rapture - tears for her departing relative and regard for the caresses of the practitioner, who is dismissing his patient for courting a bride at the same moment. While one hand of the perfidious Doctor is carelessly holding the pulse of the sinking woman, his arm is thrown round the neck of the blooming maiden, his fat features are expressive of maudlin tenderness, and his eyes are turned upwards in awkward admiration.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Diseases—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Physician and patient—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Flirting—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Medicine—Great Britain—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
City and town life—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/137f37bd-3f40-48b7-9046-be1b04c0a820/manifest