Description: Giving up the Ghost or One Too Many - Medical Caricature Satirical Print. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson, Artist: After Richard NewtonLondon, T. Tegg c. 1813EtchingOriginal hand-colouring260x380mmA rare medical caricature. Particularly fine, fresh, original hand-colouring. A scene in an impoverished, deceased patient's bedroom. The corpse of a skinny, ugly, deceased patient, wearing a ragged bedgown and nightcap, lies on a small wooden bed. Beside him an exhausted, fat, elderly physician sits sleeping in a chair, his tongue protruding from between his lips, his hands in his pockets, and his gold topped cane propped against the bedhead. An astonished undertaker peers through the door, evidently which man is the corpse, while Death holding his Dart, peers through the lattice window. A chamberpot is under the bed and various medicine bottles and a mortar and pestle lie scattered on the floor.British Museum Catalogue Code BM12153This is part of a family collection which I have been asked to sell.
Price: 240 GBP
Location: London
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Item Specifics
Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Type: Print
Artist: Richard Newton, Thomas Rowlandson
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Image Orientation: Landscape
Size: Medium
Period: Early 19th Century (1800-1830)
Title: Giving up the Ghost or One Too Many
Material: Paper
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Region of Origin: London, England
Framing: Unframed
Subject: Medical and Medicine
Year of Production: 1813
Item Height: 26 cm
Theme: satirical print caricature, Art
Style: satirical print caricature
Production Technique: Hand Coloured Etching
Item Width: 38 cm
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1800-1849
