A broken leg, or, The carpenter the best surgeon [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Published 24th Feby. 1800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
[2 February 1800]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 198 x 247 mm, on sheet 23 x 30 cm.

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
Plate numbered '240' in lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss vol. viii.

Abstract:

A sailor sits on the ground outside a house from which a man (doctor) emerges to offer assistance. He has an amused look on his face as he holds his broken peg leg. One of his two companions puts up his hand to hold off the assistance of the doctor as his other companion beckons to a carpenter who carries a plank of wood and a saw in addition to his lunch pail. A woman stands at the window looking out on the scene, her finger to her nose and a slight smile on her face. A small dog walks along the road beside the approaching carpenter.

Variant Titles:

Carpenter the best surgeon

Associated Names:

Laurie & Whittle [Publisher]

Topics:

Accidents
Carpenters -- England
Dogs
Peg legs
Physicians -- British
Sailors -- British

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1800
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1800
Genre prints -- England -- 1800
Watermarks (Paper)

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:

800.02.24.02

Orbis Record:

8246230

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09792

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10952906

PID:

digcoll:951243