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Title	Five surgeons participating in the amputation of a man's leg while another oversees them. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1793.
Imprint	[London] (3 Piccadilly, where may be had all Rowlandson's works) : S.W. Fores, 17 October 1793

Access	Location Shelfmark	Availability
Online request	Closed stores Iconographic 11636i	Available

Physical description	1 print : aquatint and etching, with watercolour
Lettering	Amputation. T. Rowlandson 1793.
Note	Published as one of a pair on 17 October 1793 with a reissue of the 1785 print "Botheration" by S. Alken after Rowlandson (BM Catalogue of ... satires, no. 8393), which represents barristers in a comparable group
References	Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954
Summary	Above the door a notice reads: "The surgery"; skeletons litter the place; on the wall is a "list of examined and approved surgeons" containing 24 names
Cite as	Wellcome Library no. 11636i
Author, etc.	Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
Topic-LCSH	Surgeons.
	Patients.
	Leg -- Amputation.
	Medicine -- Examinations.
	Medical instruments and apparatus.
Genre/Technique	Caricatures.
	Aquatints.
Copy photo no.	V 11038
System no.	.b11597471
Record no.	11636i

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