The company of undertakers [graphic].

Creator:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.

Edition:

[State 2].

Published/Created:

[London]
Publish'd by W. Hogarth,
March the 3d, 1736.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 260 x 180 mm, on sheet 302 x 227 mm

Notes:

"Price six pence."
Caption below image begins: "Beareth sable, an urinal proper, between 12 quack-heads of the second & 12 caneheads or consultant ..."
Title etched below image.
Title from British Museum catalogue: A consultation of physicians.

Abstract:

A mock coat-of-arms for physicians with fifteen heads of doctors, three of whom, in the top row, are identified as John Taylor, Sarah Mapp, and Joshua Ward; three in the lower centre peer at liquid in a glass phial, the one to left using a pince-nez. The whole is contained within a black border or hatchment supported by cross-bones. The text on the scroll at the bottom of the design: "Et plurima mortis imago."

Variant Titles:

A consultation of physicians.

Topics:

Escutcheons (Heraldry)
Medical equipment & supplies.
Physicians.
Staffs (Sticks)

Topics:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Mapp, Sarah--Caricatures and cartoons.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Sotheby, Frederick Edward,--1837-1909--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.
Taylor, John,--1703-1772--Caricatures and cartoons.
Ward, Joshua,--1685-1761--Caricatures and cartoons.

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings--England--London--1735.
Etchings--England--London--1735.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1735.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Folio 75 H67 800 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

9897513

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr26138a

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2299
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 144

OID:

16945068

PID:

digcoll:4889797