A bitter draught [graphic]

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Title: A bitter draught [graphic]
Creator: Doyle, John, 1797-1868, printmaker
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
General Lithographic Establishment.
Published / Created: April 23rd, 1842.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarke[t] and Printed at the Genl. Lithc. Estabt., 70 St. Martins Lane
Abstract: A doctor and nurse prescribing new medicines for their patient; representing Britain under a new government. The doctor (Peel) holding a medicine bottle labelled: "New tariff" says: "Come take it off like a man! Its the only remedy for your complaint, I have mixed you something very nice to wash it down." The nurse (Wellington) adds: "Come Johnny there's no use making wry faces, you know you must swallow it." John Bull holding a cup inscribed: "Income tax" retorts: "It's a great deal nastier than Dr. Russell's physic." Lying discarded on the floor are a bottle of medicine labelled; "Russell purge" and a container inscribed: "Barings pills."
Description: Title from text below image.
Print signed using John Doyle's "HB" monogram.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British -- Baring's Pills -- Russell's Purge.
Provenance: Gift of William Helfand; 1979.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 30.0 x 40.2 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) England 1842
Lithographs England London 1842
Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc
Material: lithograph ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878.
Baring, Francis Thornhill, 1796-1866.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850.
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Subject (Topic): John Bull (Symbolic character)
Legislative bodies
Reform
Physician and patient
Nurses
Medicine
Subjects: John Bull (Symbolic character)
Legislative bodies > Reform
Physician and patient
Nurses
Medicine > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Great Britain
Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878
Baring, Francis Thornhill, 1796-1866
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Medicine
England > 1842
England > London > 1842
Helfand, William H. > Donor

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