Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians
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Title
Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians
Description
In the background is a crowd of revelling quacks, some of them proclaiming they can cure Britannia's ills, perhaps referring to the Opposition
1 print : etching ; image 18.4 x 23.2 cm
State quacks - or the desperate condition of the wither'd sisters. "The house is full of quacks - jugglers and plagiaries" - L'Estrange."Thus were they plagu'd and worn with famine" - Milton.
1 print : etching ; image 18.4 x 23.2 cm
State quacks - or the desperate condition of the wither'd sisters. "The house is full of quacks - jugglers and plagiaries" - L'Estrange."Thus were they plagu'd and worn with famine" - Milton.
Creator
William Heath
Source
Wellcome
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xd955yy3
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xd955yy3
Date
1 March 1830.
Relation
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. XI, London 1954, no. 16063
Collection
Citation
William Heath, “Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians,” European Mastectomy, accessed May 24, 2026, https://www.european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/items/show/181.