 The composition of the scene is a pastiche of the frontispiece of Andreas Vesalius's "De humani corporis fabrica", and it possibly also borrows from "Quack Physicians' Hall" (c. 1730) by the Dutch artist Egbert van Heemskerck, who had lived in England and whose work Hogarth admired.An earlier source of inspiration may have been a woodcut in the 1495 "Fasciculo di medicina" by Johannes de Ketham which, although simpler, has many of the same elements, including the seated president flanked by two windows.Below the print are these final words