Satirical drawing on the professions of medicine, law and the church. Three practitioners stand in a well furnished interior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document, the clergyman a book, and the physician a phial. Pictures on the wall show men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tithes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside
Description:
Title from that of the print likely engraved after this drawing., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Date of production based on that assigned to the print with the same image in reverse by Louis Philippe Boitard. See online record for no. 1775 in the British Museum online catalogue., Formerly laid in at page 207 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Interiors, Lawyers, Pictures, Physicians, and Quarreling
Portrait of Thomas Pellett; half length, to the left, looking to front; wearing cloak with tassles decorating bands across sleeves, wig, and neck scarf; in oval; after Dahl
Description:
Title from later, lettered states., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 208 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Proof. In pencil in Steeven's hand above row of three impressions of this portrait: Dr. Pellet. See Nichols's Book, 3d. edit., p. 407.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st. 1781 by I. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market