7 Aug 2019
William Hogarth
William Hogarth was more intimate with the profession of medicine than many other early cartoonist. In 1734, Hogarth, upon hearing the St. Bartholomew’s Hospital’s board of governors intended to hire an Italian painter to produce a mural, offered his services gratis. As a result, Hogarth secured his election to the same board of governors. While […]
10 Aug 2019
Thomas Rowlandson
Where Hogarth brought a fierce skepticism to the topic of English medicine of his time, Thomas Rowlandson was positively brutal in his caricatures of the profession. In this early caricature, for example, Rowlandson represents a gaggle of surgeons pinning a man down to amputate what appears to be a perfectly healthy leg. The terror in […]
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