A Visit to the Doctor
Republished state (watermarked 1817 and "Pub'd" has been erased). An elderly doctor at right, receives two patients. The man asks the doctor, "Do you see Doctor my Dame and I become [sic] to ax your advice—we both of us eat well, and drink well, and sleep well—yet still we be somehow queerish" and the doctor responds, "You eat well—you drink well and you sleep well—very good— You was perfectly right in coming to me, for depend upon it I will give you something that shall do away all these things."
Artwork Details
- Title: A Visit to the Doctor
- Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
- Artist: After George Murgatroyd Woodward (British, 1765–1809 London)
- Publisher: Thomas Tegg (British, London 1776–1846 London)
- Published in: London
- Date: 1809–12?
- Medium: Hand-colored etching; reprint
- Dimensions: Sheet: 9 9/16 × 13 3/8 in. (24.3 × 34 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
- Object Number: 59.533.1497
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
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Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
1780–1827
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late 18th–early 19th century
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