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Death and the Apothecary, c. 1814 by Thomas Rowlandson
Size:12x9"
Frame Style:Standard 0.75"
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Size:12x9"
Frame Style:Standard 0.75"
Size:12x9"
Frame Style:Standard 0.75"
Death and the Apothecary, c. 1814, by Thomas Rowlandson (also known as The Quack Doctor) is a hand-colored satirical etching depicting a crowded apothecary shop where a skeletal figure of Death quietly mixes "slow poison" behind the counter while the apothecary attends waiting patients. Rowlandson, one of the leading English caricaturists of the Georgian era, used the scene to lampoon the dubious medical remedies sold in shops of the period.
Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827). Date: 1814.
Death and the Apothecary, c. 1814, by Thomas Rowlandson. Historic Georgian Satirical Illustration Canvas Print.