A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.

  • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
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1 September 1813
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[London] (111 Cheapside) : Thos. Tegg, 1 September 1813.

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 35 x 24.9 cm

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/77/93

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The last gasp. Or toadstools mistaken for mushrooms. Rowlandson del.

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British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. IX, London 1949, no. 12145

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Wellcome Collection 11063i

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