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A comical case
Title
A comical case [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London, published as the act directs 4 June, 1791.
Physical Description
1 print : mezzotint ; sheet 35.0 x 25.0 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from text below image.
After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Numbered "608" in lower left corner.
Summary
"Three doctors, grinning with satisfaction, stand in conference in an apothecary's shop. One (left), very corpulent, his spectacles pushed up on his forehead, holds a bottle labelled 'The Draughts as before Mr Costive'. His vis-à-vis stands chapeau-bras, holding a cane. Both wear old-fashioned dress with tie-wigs. The third, standing behind and between them is more fashionably dressed. On the counter (right) is a pestle and mortar, pill-box, and medicine phials, one labelled going to rest. Behind it are shelves on which are glass jars of varying sizes containing coloured liquids."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 31, 2013
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 8050
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1791.
Mezzotints - England - London - 1791.
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