Le docteur empailleur (BM 1889,0608.325)
Summary
Plate 15: satire on embalming and related practices; in a bedroom, a simpering doctor to right, his hat in one hand, offers his services as a specialist in the preservation of the deceased to an old man tucked up in bed close to a bedside table, the scene watched by a woman in the background to right; page from 'Le Charivari', published in 1843, with text on verso
Lithograph and letterpress
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art
lithographs
coloured lithographs in the british museum
lithographs in the british museum
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british museum
Date
1843
Source
British Museum
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Copyright info
public domain