Wellcome Collection
A statue of a physician as Aesculapius whose shadow forms the shape of a donkey. Pen drawing by Gay-again, 1831.
1815
Lettering: Aesculapius. A statue placed in the grand hall of the inquisition directly over the black hole. Gay-again invent & c. Lettering continues. The quotation within it is a parody of "Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass" in Richard III by Shakespeare (act I, scene 2)
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