J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1830.

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On the sitter see Dictionary of National Biography

[London] (24 St James's Street) : G. Humphrey, 8 September 1830.

1 print : etching, with watercolour

The oracle of Harley Street. A long way through a short cut.

"A. Sharpshooter" is a pseudonym, possibly of J. Phillips

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. XI, London 1954, no. 16426

Carolyn A. Day, Consumptive chic: a history of beauty, fashion, and disease, [London?] 2017, p. 23, fig. 2.5