Holdings Information
Bibliographic Record Display
-
Title:Consultation of physicians [graphic] / Wm. Hogarth invt.
-
Publication:[London] : Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, [approximately 1817]
-
Physical Description:1 print : mezzotint ; sheet 15.0 x 11.5 cm
-
Yale Holdings
Holdings Record Display
-
Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
-
Call Number: Hogarth 817.00.00.24 Box 140
-
Status:Not Checked Out
-
Notes:Watermark: 1817.
-
Provenance:Grosvenor Prints; January 2021.
-
Digital version
-
Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
-
Medium:wove paper.
-
Notes:Title engraved below image.
Date of publication from watermark.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Plate numbered "138" in lower left corner.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 144.
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2299.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
-
Summary:A group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. A version of the print also published with lettering "The company of undertakers". The three named quacks occupy the top, twelve other 'doctors' are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal while another holds it.
- Format:Visual Material
-
Subjects:Mapp, Sarah, -1737, depicted.
Taylor, John, 1703-1772, depicted.
Ward, Joshua, 1685-1761, depicted.
Taylor, John, 1703-1772.
Ward, Joshua, 1685-1761.
Physicians.
Quacks and quackery.
Costume--Great Britain--18th century.
Medical equipment & supplies.
Staffs (Sticks)
Wigs.
Costume.
Physicians.
Quacks and quackery.
Wigs.
Great Britain.
-
Genre/Form:Caricatures.
Group portraits.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1817.
Mezzotints--England--London--1817.
Watermarks (Paper)--1817
-
Also listed under:Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15690171