Accession number:
PML 145850.217
Published:
[London?] : Publish'd by John Daby[?] according to act of Parliament, Nov. 3, 1736.
Description:
1 print : etching ; image: approx. 130 x 361 mm; sheet: 195 x 361 mm, trimmed
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title devised by cataloger.
Inserted as item 217 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy partially trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print of a fan shaped composition showing the interior of a room where groups of men and women are gathered to watch veterinary treatments(?) performed on a monkey, who is being restrained by an older woman at center, and a small dog, who is undergoing eye surgery on a table at far left; on the wall at center is a picture labeled with the word "Epsome", and at right, a jockey stands in a doorway with a blindfolded horse.
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