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Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)
Title:
Radical Quacks giving a New Constitution to John Bull.! designed by an Amateur ; etch. by G Cruikshank.
Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, etcher.
Subject (Keyword):
Artificial Limbs
Subject (Keyword):
Quackery
Subject (Keyword):
Therapeutics
Subject (Keyword):
Bloodletting
Subject (Keyword):
Great Britian-politics and government caricatures and cartoons
Subject (Keyword):
Coffins
Subject (Genre):
Caricatures
Publication Information:
[London:] : G. Humphrey, 1822.
Copyright Statement:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Order No.:
A021467
Physical Description:
1 print : etching, color ; 30 x 42 cm.
Image Description:
A man is sitting in a chair between two physicians, his right arm is being bled, left arm is in a sling, and both legs have been amputated above the knee and fitted with pegs. A small coffin on the floor contains his legs; several bottles are on a table.
Cited in:
Catalogue of political and personal satires...in the British Museum; 13714
Cited in:
Cohn, Albert M. George Cruikshank a catalogue raisonné; 1885
Language:
eng
Restrictions on Access:
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Call Number:
WZ 336 C95 no. 17 sol
Record UI:
101393101

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