S.r Samuel Garth MD.
G.Kneller SR Imp: et Mag Brit Baronet pinx. Simon fecit.
Sold by J. Tonson in ye Strand.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 10"). Laid on sheet; narrow margins, small tear to lower right corner of plate torn away and section torn away on right.
Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719) was a physician and poet, Physician-in-Ordinary to George I and member of the Kit-Kat Club. His attempts to establish a poor person's dispensary were defeated when apothecaries raised the price of drugs, and in retaliation he wrote his satiric poem, 'The Dispensary'.
NPG: D18758. CS: 68, i; R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1084.2.
[Ref: 24801] £90.00
Sold by J. Tonson in ye Strand.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 10"). Laid on sheet; narrow margins, small tear to lower right corner of plate torn away and section torn away on right.
Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719) was a physician and poet, Physician-in-Ordinary to George I and member of the Kit-Kat Club. His attempts to establish a poor person's dispensary were defeated when apothecaries raised the price of drugs, and in retaliation he wrote his satiric poem, 'The Dispensary'.
NPG: D18758. CS: 68, i; R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1084.2.
[Ref: 24801] £90.00