From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Fiona Haslam

From Hogarth to Rowlandson shows how medicine and medical practitioners were portrayed by some of the artists of the eighteenth century. Medical imagery is a forceful component of eighteenth-century art and, taken as a corpus, the works of artists such as Hogarth and Rowlandson provide a lay view of some of the contemporary medical developments and of the attitudes held towards members of the medical profession. Eighteenth-century medical imagery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853236402
• ISBN13: 9780853236405
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.4" x 9.8"