‘From Warwick Lane’, 1790

Mounted hand coloured etching, entitled ‘From Warwick Lane.’, designed by Phillippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, etched by Anthony Torre, and published by William Holland in 1790.

This version is a later re-issue by the printer Holland of a satirical portrait produced by Torre. It shows a bizarre figure in profile, said to be a caricature of “a well-known M.D. (Doctor of Medicine), one of the last remaining of the old school”.

He is shown as a very thin man wearing an excessively tight yet very old-fashioned full-skirted frock coat and a huge wig that conceals much of his cocked hat and face – around which buzz five flies. He carries a silver topped cane in his right hand, his left hand in his pocket and wears a dress sword.