Patients undergoing magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after J. Collings.

  • Samuel Collings
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1 January 1790
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11827i
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Patients undergoing magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after J. Collings. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The British Museum catalogue suggests that the establishment depicted might be that of J.B. de Mainauduc. Mary R. McCarl, Gloucester, Mass., has suggested (verbally to the Wellcome Library, 5 July 2002) that the man in the right background might be Ebenezer Sibly, comparing the engraved portrait of him, 1807, after Dodd

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Publish'd as the Act directs by Bentley & Co., 1 January 1790.

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1 print : etching ; image 16.5 x 21.7 cm

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/53/33

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Magnetic dispensary. Drawn by Collings. Etch'd by Barlow.

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1938, no. 7748

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Wellcome Collection 11827i

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