A physician called out of bed by a hoax night call. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 18--.
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
- Date:
- [between 1800 and 1899]
- Reference:
- 650872i
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A manservant brings the physician his coat and gold-topped cane, and an umbrella. A young man hides under the bed, so that when the physician is called away by the hoax night call, the man can join the physician's wife in bed
Publication/Creation
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1800 and 1899]
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; sheet 22.7 x 26.8 cm
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Lettering
The doctor called up or the false alarm. T. Rowlandson delt.
References note
J. Grego, Rowlandson the caricaturist, London 1880 (no mention of this work found)
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires (no mention of this work found in vols. VII-X)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 650872i
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