 Author Name: Rowlandson, Thomas
Title: MEDICAL CARICATURES. With a Foreword by Morris H.Saffron
Publisher: New York Editions Medicina Rara 1971
Seller ID: 638
Looking at these prints one is tempted to feel sorry for the medical profession. They are indeed harsh but one must also recognize the state if the profession in the beginning if the nineteenth century. The medical profession was poorly regulated at this time, permitting quacks to erode public confidence in the profession. Resultingly the doctors in these prints are usually portrayed as such, drunken sots, body snatchers, and money grubbers. A dark, yet humorous work from a master of satirical art. This portfolio is number CC/X of 300 of the deluxe edition double suites from 2800 (2500 were single copies). Two copies of each of the twelve prints loose in a bolton buckram lined portfolio box covered in Curtis Tweedweave laid paper created by Brick & Ballerstein, Long Island City, New York. Box faded, one side defective. A couple protective sheets with creases but actual prints near fine to fine. Classic Rowlandson.
Deluxe, Medical Caricature
Price =
404.55 USD |
