Long description

Image of a coloured engraving depicting a French doctor and his English patient, seated on either side of a table in the patient’s bedchamber. The doctor is on the left, the patient is on the right of the table, which is covered with a tablecloth. The doctor is a portly individual, wearing a dark coat and a curled wig, with a napkin tied under his chin. He is engaged in eating a substantial meal of capons and drinking a flagon of wine. The patient is in his bedclothes and is propped up in his chair by a large pillow. He is reading a sheet of paper on which is outlined the much less substantial meal that the doctor is recommending for him – tea and broth. In the background is the patient’s bed with rumpled bedclothes.