A young physician taking the pulse of a woman with whom he is flirting, a young man passing by raises his hat. Colour stipple engraving by J. Parker, 1783, after J. Northcote.

[London] (Sweetings Alley, Cornhill) : John Harris excudit, [1783]

1 print : stipple engraving, circular, printed in sanguine

The pulse. Le pouls. J. Northcote pinxit. Parker sculp. Lettering continues: "Trust me, my dear Eugenius, there are worse occupations, than feeling a woman's pulse - but a grisette's and in an open shop. Yorick. Sterne's Sentimental Journey vol. I."

G.E. Bentley, Jr., 'The journeyman and the genius: James Parker and his partner William Blake with a list of Parker's engravings', Studies in bibliography, 1996, 49: 208-231 (p. 220)

Wellcome Collection 21778i