A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
- Date:
- [1800?]
- Reference:
- 10978i
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Description
A pestle and mortar over the door-lintel acts as a sign that the house is an apothecary's shop
Publication/Creation
[1800?]
Physical description
1 painting : watercolour ; border 18.9 x 28.5 cm
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Lettering
The village doctor besieg'd.
Creator/production credits
English, similar to the style of Thomas Rowlandson: either by him or by an artist in his circle such as H. Wigstead
Reference
Wellcome Collection 10978i
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Location Status Access Closed stores