The interior of a doctor's surgery. A stout butcher (left) with a knife in his right hand has seized the cravat of a grotesquely lean and terror-stricken doctor, who puts out his hands in terror. Behind the doctor appears the end of a table or bench (right) on which are arranged medicine phials, pill-boxes, a jar and a pestle. Behind the butcher is an open door. Beneath the title is engraved:
"butcher. Prepare sir - you poison'd my wife----------
and by jupiter i'll butcher you--------------
doctor. Good sir-------hear me --- indeed-------
upon my honor it was only?------only only
-------a physical error. " 25 january 1782
etching. Date: 1782. Dimensions: Height: 210 mm; Width: 172 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. The phisical error. (BM 1868,0808.4791)
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