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Ambo occidere pares
Published
[1795]
hand colored etching
image: 16.8 x 12.5 cm; plate: 18 x 13.5 cm; sheet: 19.9 x 15.3 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2894
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Design in a circle. The profile busts of two men are joined together back to back, and stand in a dish, one head (left) being much smaller than the other. Beside the smaller are a medicine phial, syringe, &c.; beside the other, medicine phial and (?) pill-box. Beneath the circle is etched: 'The Æsculapian Calves Head in a Dish. Thus Impudence and Quackery combin'd, Produce a Janus of this Mongrel kind Thus Clumsy, Clownish, Corpulent, & thin, They Join exact like Milton's Death & Sin.'
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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