'The Sage Physician' Size:M: 60 x 30cm Figure in military clothing firing

Figure in military clothing firing a musket and wearing a sword

View showing horse-drawn vehicles

He has a particularly stupid expression on his face

A bewhiskered aristocrat is handed a broom by Mr Punch and told to begin cleaning up

'The Sage Physician' Size:M: 60 x 30cm Figure in military clothing firingFrontispiece to The complete English physician; or, an universal library of family medicines, by George Alexander Gordon (New edition, London, 1785). Showing a seated physician who is consulting a book and handing a piece of paper, perhaps a prescription or a medical bill, to a standing patient. In the background is a bookcase holding generally unidentified volumes, but including two volumes by Herman Boerhaave (1668 1738). A skeleton, chemical retort