Roderick's examination at Surgeons Hall [graphic] / Collings delin. ; Stadler sculpt.

Published/Created:

[London]
Publish'd as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermanns, 101 Strand
[12 May 1800]

Copyright Date:

[12 May 1800]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 28.5 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 30 x 37 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Lower right corner: Vide Roderick Random, Vol. I, Chap. XVII.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ix; May 1954; Acquisitions no.:954-5-9-58.

Abstract:

An illustration to Smollett's Adventures of Roderick Random: Inside Surgeons Hall, the scene showing doctors around a table on which lies a skull. On the walls, placards wtih describing fees and another "Corporation of Surgeons"; on the left hands a skeleton.

Variant Titles:

Hogarthian novelist ; plate 3

Associated Names:

Stadler, Joseph Constantine [Printmaker]
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834 [Publisher]
Collings, Samuel [Artist]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Barbers
Harvey, Francis
Medical education
Physicians
Riviere & Son
Signs (Notices)
Skeletons
Skulls
Smollett, T. 1721-1771

Language:

English

Genre:

Aquatints -- England -- London -- 1800
Book illustrations
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1800
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1800

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:

800.05.12.06+

Orbis Record:

8253707

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09972

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10953068

PID:

digcoll:951390