Giving up the ghost, or, One too many [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1813?]eng"A dying man, wearing a tattered shirt, lies stretched on a miserable bed under a casement window, through which looks Death, a skeleton holding up an hour-glass and a javelin which he points menacingly at his victim. A fat doctor (left) sits asleep at the bedside (left) while an undertaker's man, with a coffin on his back, and holding a crêpe-bound mute's wand, enters from the right as if smelling out death. The doctor wears old-fashioned dress, with powdered wig, and has a huge gold-headed cane. Beside him are the words: "I purge I bleed I sweat em, Then if they Die I Lets em"."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Probably a later state; beginning of imprint statement appears to have been burnished from plate.Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.Also issued separately.Plate numbered "292" in upper right corner.Temporary local subject terms: Doctor.Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.