An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured reproduction of an aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.

  • Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
11 November 1801
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11817i
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London (27 St. James's Street) : H. Humphrey, 11 November 1801.

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1 print : lithographic reproduction of an aquatint, with watercolour ; image 8.2 x 12.4 cm

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/92/48

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Metallic tractors. Js. Gillray invt & fec.

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The original is described in: British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VIII, London 1947, no. 9761

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Wellcome Collection 11817i

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