18th-century poet and author from Scotland

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Tobias George Smollett. Stipple engraving by G. Phillips.

Tobias George Smollett. Line engraving by T. Cook, 1785.

Tobias George Smollett. Line engraving by J. Collyer, 1790.

Tobias George Smollett. Stipple engraving by S. Freeman after Sir J. Reynolds.

Tobias George Smollett. Stipple engraving by S. Freeman.

Tobias George Smollett. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley.

Tobias George Smollett. Stipple engraving by S. Freeman, 1831, after Sir J. Reynolds.

Tobias George Smollett. Stipple engraving by E Scriven.

Tobias George Smollett. Stipple engraving by W. Evans.

A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.

Tobias George Smollett. Line engraving by W. Bromley, 1805.

Tobias George Smollett. Engraving by J. A. Dean, 1820, after Sir J. Reynolds.

Tobias Smollett / Jeremy Lewis.

Doctor Smollett / by Cecil K. Drinker.

Tobias George Smollett. Line engraving by A. Birrell, 1794.

The expedition of Humphry Clinker / by T. Smollett, M.D. With a memoir of the author by Thomas Roscoe ... and illustrations by George Cruikshank.

Tobias George Smollett. Line engraving by J. T. Wedgwood, 1817.

Roderick Random (a licentiate from Scotland) facing a board of medical examiners at Surgeons Hall. Coloured aquatint by J. Stadler, 1800, after S. Collings after T. Smollett.

A treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery / [Ed. by T. Smollett].

Roderick Random's fellow surgeon's mate approaching their new captain for the post of surgeon while docked in Jamaica; the foppish Captain Whiffle has fainted due to Morgan's appearance and odour, his entourage try to revive him with smelling salts and lavender water. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1793, after himself, after T. Smollett, c. 1750.

Mrs Lavement arriving back home late after the theatre with Captain O'Donnel causing Mr Lavement (an apothecary) much anger and jealousy, Roderick Random apprentice to Mr Lavement watches the scene with amusement. Etching by T. Rowlandson after himself after T. Smollett.

The adventures of Roderick Random : in two volumes / By T. Smollet.

An essay on the external use of water ... with particular remarks upon the ... method of using the mineral waters at Bath ... and a plan for rendering them more safe / [Tobias George Smollett].

The adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which are included memoirs of a Lady of quality / By T. Smollett ... with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

The letters of Tobias Smollett / edited by Lewis M. Knapp.

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Tobias Smollett

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Works

The adventures of Roderick Random : in two volumes / By T. Smollet.

The expedition of Humphry Clinker / by T. Smollett, M.D. With a memoir of the author by Thomas Roscoe ... and illustrations by George Cruikshank.

An essay on the external use of water ... with particular remarks upon the ... method of using the mineral waters at Bath ... and a plan for rendering them more safe / [Tobias George Smollett].

The adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which are included memoirs of a Lady of quality / By T. Smollett ... with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

The letters of Tobias Smollett / edited by Lewis M. Knapp.

Tobias Smollett

Images by Tobias Smollett

Images featuring Tobias Smollett

Works

The adventures of Roderick Random : in two volumes / By T. Smollet.

The expedition of Humphry Clinker / by T. Smollett, M.D. With a memoir of the author by Thomas Roscoe ... and illustrations by George Cruikshank.

An essay on the external use of water ... with particular remarks upon the ... method of using the mineral waters at Bath ... and a plan for rendering them more safe / [Tobias George Smollett].

The adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which are included memoirs of a Lady of quality / By T. Smollett ... with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

The letters of Tobias Smollett / edited by Lewis M. Knapp.

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