WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764)
Dr Misaubin and Dr Ward
c.1730RCIN 913472
This rapid sketch is probably an imagined interaction between two infamous quack doctors, John Misaubin (left) and Joshua Ward (right). Hogarth showed the two men disputing over the treatment of the dying heroine in A Harlot’s Progress. The identifying inscriptions are an early hand, but were not written by Hogarth himself.
Purchased by Queen Victoria in 1845
Cat. 83