Two macaroni doctors [graphic]

Description

Title: Two macaroni doctors [graphic]
Creator: Johnson, John, -1797, printmaker
Contributor: Jefferys, Thomas, active 1766-1772, publisher.
Published / Created: [18 June 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, 18 June 1772, by T. Jeffrys, Charing Cross
Abstract: Two physicians standing in an unfurnished room examine contents of a urinal that one of them is holding up for inspection in one hand while raising a large pocket watch in the other hand. Both wear fashionable bag wigs. Behind them on the wall hang two old-fashioned doctors' wigs. Propped up next to each wig is a gold-headed cane
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark, mostly trimmed.
A list of names of possible subjects has been added in later hand on verso. It includes Matthew Maty, Oliver Goldsmith, William Hunter and John Fothergill, among a few other, illegible names.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 23 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
Physicians
Subjects: Dandies
Physicians
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

Access: Public
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