Social satire; folding frontispiece to the September issue of volume one of 'The Wit's Magazine' (London, 1784); 'The Wit's Magazine', i. 321. Illustration to verses with the same title, p. 351. The interior of an inn bedroom, showing a large four-post bed with check curtains. A fat doctor, seated on the foot of the bed, is being forced to drink from a large pot held by a man wearing a check dressing-gown, nightcap, and slippers. A chambermaid leaning on her broom, a waiter, and a coachman stand within the open door (right), watching with amusement. Standing on a recessed window-seat (left) are medicine bottles and pill-boxes.  1 October 1784
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<p>After: Samuel Collings
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<dl><dd>Published by: Harrison &amp; Co</dd></dl></div>
1784<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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