Bransby Blake Cooper: he is attacked by a man holding a giant lancet, representing the Lancet (medical journal). Coloured etching by "Dicky Fubs" [H. Heath?], 1828.
- Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.
- Date:
- Decr 29. 1828
- Reference:
- 2056i
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The editor of the Lancet was Thomas Wakley, but the man holding the lancet here does not resemble portraits of Wakley. The Lancet had attacked Cooper for benefiting from nepotism
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London (Broadway Ludgate Hill) : J. Fairburn, Decr 29. 1828.
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1 print : etching, with watercolour
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The Cooper's adz!! versus the Lancet!! Dickey Fubs delt.
The man holding the lancet says "A Lancet is far superior to a Coopers adz, it is so sharp at the point--besides it will perform a scientific operation with expedition!" Cooper, dressed as a cooper and holding a cooper's adz, cries out: 'That cursed Lancet has cut so deep, I fear the wound will never be closed--Oh! my posteriors!--My seat of honor!--My latter end!--Oh! dear--Oh! dear--Oh!--..."
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1954, vol. XI, no. 15571
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 669.3
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Wellcome Collection 2056i
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