The dying patient, or, Doctor's last fee [graphic]

Description

Title: The dying patient, or, Doctor's last fee [graphic]
Alternative Title: Doctor's last fee
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Published / Created: [1 April 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd April 1st, 1786, by H. Brookes, Coventry Street
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Medical Fees -- Unsuccessful treatment
Imprint statement crossed out in ink and new statement added below in a contemporary hand: London, Pub. by W. Holland, Oxford Street.
Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 28.8 x 32.0 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Aquatints England London 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching and aquatint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Death
Sick persons
Physicians
Wages
Military uniforms
British
Subjects: Death
Sick persons
Physicians
Wages
Military uniforms > British
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
18th century
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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