METHUSELAH ARCHIVE SOURCES / WELLCOME-SHARPSHOOTER-ORACLE-HARLEY-STREET-1830

J. St. John Long dressed as a funeral mourner (Wellcome V0016227)

period print · 1830
type:period print
year:1830
citation:Sharpshooter, A. (attrib.) J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching. London: G. Humphrey, 8 September 1830. Wellcome Collection reference 21000i / Miro image V0016227. Public Domain Mark.
LINK
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jwfrfwbn
SUMMARY
Satirical hand-coloured etching, published by G. Humphrey on 8 September 1830 (before either manslaughter trial), attributed to the pseudonymous A. Sharpshooter (the Wellcome record notes this may be J. Phillips). Confirmed directly against the Wellcome Collection catalogue API; rights tagged Public Domain Mark. Direct visual inspection of the downloaded image (independently by a vision-review subagent and the authoring session) confirms the visible content: a top banner naming Harley Street as the setting, a mourning-dressed figure holding placards mocking a fatal skin treatment sold under the promise of no quackery, quacking ducks, and a funeral procession in the background; these placard and banner details are described here rather than quoted, since they do not appear as transcribed text on any fetchable archive page (only the work's title and short lettering summary do). Note: the Wellcome catalogue's own lettering field summarizes the bottom banner as ending 'a short cut,' but direct visual inspection of the print itself (independently by a vision-review subagent and the authoring session) shows it reads 'a short life'; this bundle's caption follows the directly-viewed image for that word, not the catalogue's lettering summary (see grounding log for the discrepancy note), and otherwise follows the archive's own work title for the identification and attribution.
NOTES

Satirical etching from September 1830, published a month after Catherine Cashin’s death and before either of Long’s Old Bailey trials, showing him as a mourner surrounded by placards satirizing his fatal treatments and quacking ducks. Wellcome Collection catalogue reference 21000i (Miro V0016227), rights confirmed Public Domain Mark via direct API fetch. This bundle’s caption is based on direct visual inspection of the image (confirmed independently twice) rather than the catalogue’s own lettering transcription, which contains a transcription discrepancy on one phrase (see grounding log).