A doctor in purgator!!

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Title

A doctor in purgator!!

Subject

A physician in purgatory is confronted by many demons (former patients?) who bleed, purge, and otherwise treat him (as perhaps he treated them); one has a basket of surgical instruments.

Description

1 print : 54 x 44 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
aquatint and etching

note: the gender ambiguity of the 'demons'

Creator

Author(s):
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809., artist
Contributor(s):
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798
Hassell, J. (John), 1767-1825, artist

Source

NLM
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101394160

Publisher

London: Pubd. Novr. 11 17932 by W. Holland no 50 Oxford St, [1792]

Collection

Citation

Author(s): Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809., artist Contributor(s): Newton, Richard, 1777-1798 Hassell, J. (John), 1767-1825, artist , “A doctor in purgator!!,” European Mastectomy, accessed May 24, 2026, https://european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/items/show/288.