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Sola Experientia Vera Medicamina Docet = Tis only experience that teaches proper remedies

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Frederick George Byron
1764-1792

Sola Experientia Vera Medicamina Docet = Tis only experience that teaches proper remedies

Published

London : Pubd. by W. Holland No. 50 Oxford Street, Decr. 7th 1789.

etching and aquatint
image: 228 x 425 mm; sheet: 276 x 454 mm
Peel 1694
Notes
"Copied from one of a set of satirical prints on medicine made by Desprez in Sweden ... This English copy was first published (from an impression in the Library of Congress) by Richard Godfrey in 'Print Quarterly', III 1986, pp. 238-40. Richard Godfrey suggested that the engraver might be the Swedish engraver J.F.Martin. The attribution to Frederick George Byron was made by Andrew Edmunds."--British Museum online catalog.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Satire on medicine: to the right, a man sits on a close stool holding a steaming glass vessel; behind him a doctor reads from a large volume propped against the lid of the stool; he wears a tall hat, large glasses and an ermine-trimmed robe which is held by a man with a moustache, hat, lace-trimmed collar and cloak who carries a sword; men in white pierrot costumes stand on either side behind the doctor each holding a large candle the smoke from which partly obscures the doctor's hat; at the end of the procession are three men in the same costumes carrying clysters on their shoulders; all are in profile to right and have large noses. Cf. George.

Associated names
Desprez, Louis-Jean, 1743-1804, artist.
Holland, William, 1757-1815, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department