Thomas Rowlandson's Medical Themed Caricatures
1) ROWLANSDON, Thomas Reproduced 'Medical Caricatures' including 'The Anatomist', 'Medical Dispatch', 'The Last Gasp', 'Giving up the Ghost', 'Macassar Oil', 'Dropsy courting Consumption', 'The Enraged Son of Mars and Timid Tonsor', 'The Dying Patient', 'A Visit to the Doctor', 'Bath Races', 'Doctor Drainbarrel' and 'A Going! A Going'. Pub. NEW YORK: Medicina Rara 1971, Number 483/2500.
Unbound in box as produced. Includes 12 Reproduced Medical Caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson, in paper frames, with supporting documents.
Fairly clean copies in good condition with a few scuffs and slight sunning to box.
Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica KF Russell on inside of box.
380x450mm (box) 355x345mm (each caricature frame border)
2) Six loose pages of caricatures (5 are card framed) including: 2 by Thomas Rowlandson 'Medical Dispatch' and 'The Anatomist' (loose copy) and 4 by H. Humphrey: 'Taking Physick' (1800), 'Breathing a Vein' (1804), 'Gentle Emetic' (1804) and 'Charming - Well Again' (1804)
Some foxing and browning to images and frames. 300x430mm (largest frame).
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) was a prolific English caricaturist who satirized high society during the Georgian period.


PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $350-450