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A satire on quacks and quackery
Title
[A satire on quacks and quackery] [graphic].
Publication
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1766?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 28.8 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 34 x 29 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Quacks -- Dissections -- Containers: tubs -- Furniture: butcher's block -- Carcasses: pig -- Carcasses: cat -- Hares.
Notes
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on an advertisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766.
Original etched by W.H. Toms.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Behold how in the colledge [sic] hall, the surgeons and the doctors all, are met in consultation wise, a carcase [sic] to anatomize ...
Slightly reduced copy in reverse, without attribution, and with different verses, of No. 1861 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 03, 2008
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1730.
Etchings - England - London - 1766.
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