51.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1813?]
- Call Number:
- Print00175
- Collection Title:
- V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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 catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- One too many
- Description:
- Title 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., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 25.5 x 39.5 cm., and Watermark: 1819.
- Publisher:
- Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Death (Personification), Skeletons, Physicians, Undertakers, Coffins, Hourglasses, Interiors, Sick persons, Deathbeds, and Windows
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Giving up the ghost, or, One too many [graphic]