A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Heath.
- Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.
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A scrawny and an obese dog play next to the doctor's stool and bucket. On the wall are a picture of an obese man and a skeletal man and a picture entitled "Specimen of the reduction of a dog, performed by the stomach-pump - in 3 operations"
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 12.6 x 16.5 cm.
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Lettering
Reduction. Gravè par Jazet a Paris
Notes
Reversed version of the English print (Wellcome Library catalogue no. 11809i)
References note
Not found in: Jean Adhémar, Jacques Lethève, and Françoise Gardey, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome onzième, Paris 1960 (inventory of prints by members of the Jazet family)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 11810i
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