Medical Dispatch or Doctor Doubledose Killing Two Birds with One Stone

Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Tegg

November 20, 1810 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

An elderly woman sits in an armchair while a doctor holds her wrist and puts his arm around a young woman who leans on the back of the chair. They gaze into each other's eyes. On the table at the old woman's elbow are medicine vials, a bowl of "Composing Draught," and a pill-box inscribed "Opium." The doctor has a gold-headed cane inscribed "Medical Staff."

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Tegg

Date

November 20, 1810

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959