Three affluent doctors congratulating themselves on their profession. Coloured mezzotint, 1793, after Robert Dighton.
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814.
- Date:
- Published as the Act directs 4 June 1793
- Reference:
- 10771i
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The obese doctor on the left holds a bottle labelled "The draughts as before Mr. Costive", the doctor on the right holds his gold-topped cane up to his chin. In the background there are various pharmaceutical bottles and jars, one is labelled "Going to rest"
Publication/Creation
London (69 St. Paul's Church Yard) : Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, Published as the Act directs 4 June 1793.
Physical description
1 print : mezzotint, with watercolour and gouache ; platemark 35 x 25.3 cm
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How merrily we live that doctor's be. We humbug the public and pocket the fee.
Bears number bottom left : 608
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1938, no. 8050
Dennis Rose, Life, times, and recorded works of Robert Dighton (1752-1814): actor, artist, and printseller and three of his artist sons portrayers of Georgian pageantry and wit, [S.l.]: D. Rose, 1981, p. 34 and p. 74 (watercolour)
David Padfield, A view of Dightons: the Dighton family, their times, caricatures and portraits, London 2007, p. 82 (watercolour; mezzotint not found)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 10771i
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