M0018389: "How merrily we live that Doctor's be, We humbug the public and pocket the fee", coloured mezzotint

Date:
December 1960
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WT/D/1/20/1/163/60
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M0018389: "How merrily we live that Doctor's be, We humbug the public and pocket the fee", coloured mezzotint. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: 'How merrily we live that Doctor's be...'

Description

Coloured mezzotint, 1793, after Robert Dighton, showing three affluent doctors congratulating themselves on their profession. Related images: V0010904, L0007351

Publication/Creation

December 1960

Physical description

1 photograph sheet film negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 10771i

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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