Copy of "the inspection" (after the painting by hogarth in the national gallery); interior of a dispensary where the viscount has brought his child-mistress to visit m. De la pillule whose remedy has not cured her venereal disease; a large, well-dressed woman (perhaps a procuress) looks angrily at the young man and opens a knife, while the quack polishes his glasses; the room contains numerous medical and scientific objects, including machines for straightening shoulders and for drawing corks, a dried crocodile, a narwhal's tusk, and two mummies; illustration to 'the london journal' (february 9, 1848). Wood-engraving. Date: 1848. Dimensions: Height: 370 mm (border); Width: 463 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate III (BM 1857,0214.237)
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