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The Anatomist by Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827): The Play's the Thing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2012

L M Vincent
L M Vincent
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Brigham & Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Medical History , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , 01 April 2005 , pp. 213 - 218
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2005. Published by Cambridge University Press

References

1 Bernard Falk, Thomas Rowlandson: his life and art, New York, The Beechhurst Press, 1952, p. 145.

2 Ronald Paulson, Rowlandson: a new interpretation, New York, Oxford University Press, 1972, p. 13.

3 Ibid., p. 14.

4 Falk, op. cit., note 1 above, p. 164.

5 Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the caricaturist, 2 vols, London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, vol. 2, p. 202.

6 M Dorothy George, Catalogue of political and personal satires, preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, 11 vols, London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1935–54, vol. 9, no. 11800, p. 63.

7 Fielding H Garrison, An introduction to the history of medicine, 4th ed., Philadelphia and London, W B Saunders, 1929, p. 249.

8 Leo Hughes and A H Scouten, Ten English farces, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1948, p. 88.

9 Ibid., p. 87.

10 Edward Ravenscroft, The anatomist: or, The sham doctor, London, R Baldwin, 1697, in Hughes and Scouten, op. cit., note 8 above, pp. 96–120.

11 Ibid., p. 106.

12 University of Kansas (Miscellaneous publication of the Museum of Art, no. 66), The school for scandal: Thomas Rowlandson's London; an account of his life & times & especially his depictions of the theatre, together with some discussion of the life & works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan & of his play The school for scandal as performed at the University Theatre, Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1967, p. 4.

13 Hughes and Scouten, op. cit., note 8 above, p. 90.

14 John Adolphus, Memoirs of John Bannister, comedian, 2 vols, London, Richard Bentley, 1839, vol. 2, p. 344.

15 Ibid., vol. 2, p. 83.

16 Falk, op. cit., note 1 above, p. 50.

17 Ibid., p. 160.

18 Grego, op. cit., note 5 above, vol. 1, pp. 28–9.

19 Ruth Richardson, Death, dissection and the destitute, University of Chicago Press, 2000, p. 55.

20 William C Butterfield, ‘A caricaturist of the eighteenth century anatomists and surgeons’, Surg. Gynecol. Obstet., 1977, 144: 587–92.

21 Paulson, op. cit., note 2 above, p. 72.

22 Ibid., p. 14.

23 Morris H Saffron (foreword by), Thomas Rowlandson: Medical caricatures, New York, Editions Medicina Rara Ltd, 1971.

24 Grego, op. cit., note 5 above, vol. 1, p. 6.