The Medical Student

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The medical student.

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Artist

Name:
Meadows, Joseph Kenny
Dates:
1790-1874
Country:
UK

Illustration

Subject:
People
Technique:
Wood Engraving
Engraver:
Smith, John Orrin
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
Harold B. Lee Library, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:
Heads of the people: or, Portraits of the English, vol. 1
Author:
Collective work
Publisher:
London: Robert Tyas, 1840
Open Library:
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Description:

A young man wearing his top hat tilted to the side, a cravat, a waistcoat, and a fluffy coat is seen smoking a cigar and carrying a book under his arm while smugly looking sideways.

The illustration is complemented by the following quotation from William Wordsworth’s poem The tables Turned: We murder to dissect.

The type of the medical student is described in detail by P. Leigh, in the accompanying literary sketch:

A young gentleman, of about five feet eight inches in height, with dull darkish eyes, and eyebrows to match—interlacing over the root of the nose, the last-mentioned feature being large, long, and fleshy, and in excellent keeping with a couple of thick projecting lips. The complexion is a kind of smoky tallow; the forehead is narrow and sloping, but the contour of the rest of the head is concealed by a four-and-ninepenny gossamer, with a very narrow brim and sundry indentations in front, worn sideways in the most approved fashion of billiard-room frequenters, and visitors of night-houses. A black neckerchief, tied à la Ben Brace, a very high and not very clean shirt-collar, a rough flushing jacket garnished with broad black bone buttons, a very long waistcoat of a shawl pattern, and blue shaggy trousers splashed with mud at their terminations, complete the costume. The tout-ensemble forms an illustration of “December fashions for Gentlemen,” as modified in the person of a probationary guardian of the public health” in statu pupillari,”—that is, in the course of “walking the hospitals.”

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