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The Benevolent Physician   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
The Benevolent Physician
Description
English: The interior of a room showing no trace of actual poverty. The invalid, a man, fully dressed but wearing a nightcap, sits in an upholstered arm-chair by the fire. A little girl stands at his knee; at his side on a tray or table are two bowls and a medicine bottle labelled 'as before'.


The physician, a well-dressed man wearing a bag-wig, is about to leave the room (right); he puts coins into the hand of a young woman holding an infant.
The room is papered, a half-tester bed with curtains stands against the wall. Tea-things are ranged along the chimney-piece, over which is a framed picture of a Christ healing the blind man.
Beneath the title is engraved:

'The Benevolent Physician takes no Fee.
Of those that need him much in Poverty.
To Poor distress'd, and those of small estate
He Money gives, takes only of the great.' 1782


Hand-coloured mezzotint
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 350 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
2010,7081.837
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) A companion design to BMSat 3797. The subject and the title are probably imitated from BMSat 6347, 3798. There is, however, no similarity in design.

(Supplementary information) The print is listed in Carington Bowles' catalogue for 1790, p. 109 no. 508 States

There is a reissue with the date erased [1935,0522.1.58]
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2010-7081-837
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