Roderick's examination at Surgeons Hall [graphic]

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Title: Roderick's examination at Surgeons Hall [graphic]
Creator: Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker
Contributor: Collings, Samuel, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 May 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermanns, 101 Strand
Abstract: An illustration to Smollett's Adventures of Roderick Random: Inside Surgeons Hall, the scene showing doctors around a table on which lies a skull. On the walls, placards wtih describing fees and another "Corporation of Surgeons"; on the left hands a skeleton
Description: Title etched below image.
Lower right corner: Vide Roderick Random, Vol. I, Chap. XVII.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ix; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 28.5 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 30 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Aquatints England London 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Book illustrations
Material: etching and aquatint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Smollett, T. 1721-1771. (Tobias),
Subject (Topic): Barbers
Medical education
Physicians
Signs (Notices)
Skeletons
Skulls
Subjects: Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771 > Illustrations
Barbers
Medical education
Physicians
Signs (Notices)
Skeletons
Skulls
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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