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Arms of the Undertakers 1736  

The sketch is a satire against physicians, rather than undertakers, as the term is now understood.  The suggestion is that doctors of the day were incompetent buffoons who saw most people off  to the grave.  The characters at the bottom are inspecting a urine bottle.  Many of them are sniffing their gold headed canes, which probably contained salts or disinfectants.  The figure at bottom centre left is said to be Mrs. Mapp, a celebrated bone setter, who wandered about the country and was known as Crazy Sally.  The figure on her right is Chevalier Taylor, a noted oculist of the time.  The figure dressed in harlequin at the top is possibly lampooning Sir Hans Sloane, whose collection formed the foundation of the British Museum.  


Arms of the Undertakers

  William Hogarth

British Artist and Engraver

Arms of the Undertakers.  

Engraving, published 1736





Arms of the Undertakers



Source:  Hogarth's Works published by J. Dicks, 313 The Strand, London.  Circa 1880.  

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Arms of the Undertakers


 Arms of the Undertakers

Et plurima mortis imago - And other images of death.  

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