A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators. Engraving, 1748.
- Date:
- According to Act of Parliamt. 1748
- Reference:
- 20666i
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Description
Doctor Rock (Richard Rock 1690-1777) was a medicine vendor who frequented the London areas of Tower Hill, St. Paul's Cathedral and Covent Garden. He offered for sale his "anti-venereal, grand, specifick pill". He was represented in several caricatures: William Hogarth referred to him in A harlot's progress pl. V; The march to Finchley; and The four times of the day, morning
Publication/Creation
[London] : Sold in May's Building Covent Garden & 100 more, According to Act of Parliamt. 1748.
Physical description
1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 20.1 x 32.8 cm
Lettering
Quackery unmask'd, or, empiricism display'd. Dedicated to Doctor Chiron riding master to Achilles, and Æsculapius physician extraordinary to the dead. ...
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. III pt. I, London 1877, no. 3019
Reference
Wellcome Collection 20666i
Type/Technique
Subjects
- Donkeys
- Horses
- Dogs
- Ducks
- Skull
- CostumeGreat Britain18th century
- Saws
- Rams
- Centaurs
- Quacks and quackery
- Aesculapius (Roman deity)
- Schwanberg, Baron, active 1748.
- Bateman, Robert, active 1690.
- Okell, Benjamin.
- West, G., active 1748.
- Williams, John, active 1748.
- Misaubin, Marthe.
- Rock, Richard, 1690-1777.
- Neeler, Edmund, active 1748.
- Profily, John.
- Greenough, T., active 1748.
- Turlington, Robert, -1767.
- Newbery, John, 1713-1767.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores