Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured stipple engraving after L. Boilly, c. 1823.

Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.

Date:: [1823]

Reference:: 16318i

Part of:: Grimaces

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Description

"1760" refers to the time of the ancien régime and contrasts the picture with another of Boilly's 'Grimaces' series bearing the same title, but a different date, 1823. It shows a group of fashionable young doctors and can be seen in Wellcome Library no. 16325i

Publication/Creation

[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1823]

Physical description

1 print : stipple engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 30.1 x 23 cm.

Series

Grimaces

Contributors

Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.

Lettering

A medical consultation. 1760

References note

Not found in: Étienne Bréton and Pascal Zuber, Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761-1845: le peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, Paris: Arthena, 2019 (but English publications of Boilly's Grimaces mentioned in vol. I, p. 309)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 16318i

Notes

'Grimaces' is the title of a series of 92 lithographs designed by Boilly between 1823 and 1828, "reissued by the Maison Aubert in 1837 as 'Groupes physionomiques connus sous le nom de grimaces par Boilly'. 200-300 exemplars of first edition, up to 1000 on a few. Also issued in more limited editions in London." (Judith Wechsler, 'A Human Comedy', Thames and Hudson, London 1982, p. 194)