The village doctress [graphic].

Description

Title: The village doctress [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 June 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd 20th June 1787 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
Abstract: An old woman wearing a white apron and bonnet sits in a chair, with two canes at her side. She is bandaging the hand of a tearful young woman, while another young woman looks on. A cat sits in the ledge beneath a casement window
Description: Title from item.
Numbered '199' in lower right corner of plate.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : mezzotint ; plate mark 15.2 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19 x 14 cm.
Year in imprint statement has been partially erased from sheet and final two digits have been altered in ms.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.2 x 12 cm, on sheet 19 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints
Mezzotints England London 1787
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Cats
Clothing & dress
Clothes chests
Crutches
Physicians
Women
Subjects: Cats
Clothing & dress > England > 1780-1790
Clothes chests
Crutches
Physicians
Women
England > London > 1787

Access: Public
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