Engraving (coloured impression). An aged surgeon leans over a bag of instruments on a table (right), selecting a knife; he wears an old-fashioned wig, hat, coat, etc. A pretty girl seizes him by the arm; she shouts at him, pointing behind her to his subject, a young man lying on the trestle-table, fully dressed and apparently in perfect health, who has just wakened, fully dressed and apparently in perfect health, who has just wakened, horrified. In an open cupboard stands a skeleton (left). On the wall is a notice: 'A Course of Anatomical Lectures accompanied with Dissections will be delivered tommorrow Even(ing) by Professor Sawbone'. Two lighted candles stand on the table. On the lintel of the door is a bust of who is thought to be Hippocrates frowning down at the scene. Probably a satire on body-snatching. Cf. Nos. 5119, 13283. For Rowlandson’s interest in anatomical dissections cf. Nos. 6127, 9682. Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 202. A Description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. IX. 11800.