"A footman hands a plate of food to an elderly man in night attire while carelessly letting scalding water pour from a kettle on to the latter's leg."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and series number engraved above image., Tenth plate in a series of twenty: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, page 655., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Three lines of text below image: The curious observer of the passions has only to get a careless servant to pour some hot water on his foot, in a case of the gout, & he will soon know the nature of acute pain., "No. 10.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 29.2 x 23.7., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge, resulting in loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 (George Moutard),
"From the bustle and life visible on all sides it would seem that the period is fair-time, when the rustics and agricultural population of the vicinity in general flock into the town, holiday-making. A travelling mountebank has established his theatre in the market place; the person of the ingenious charlatan is decked out in a fine court dress, with bag wig, powder, sword, and laced hat complete, the better to excite the respect of his audience; he is holding forth on the marvellous properties ascribed to the nostrums which he is seeking to palm off on the simple villagers as wonder-working elixirs; while his attendants, Merry Andrew and Jack Pudding, are going through their share of the performance. One branch of the mountebank physician's profession was the drawing of teeth; an unfortunate sufferer is submitting himself to the hands of the empiric's assistant. The rural audience is stolidly contemplating the antics of the party, without being particularly moved by Dr. Botherum's imposing eloquence, these vagabond scamps being frequently clever rogues, blessed with an inexhaustible fund of bewildering oratory, and witty repartee at glib command. Leaving the quack, we find plentiful and suggestive materials to employ the humourist's skilful graver scattered around. In the centre, a scene of jealousy is displayed; the beguilements of a portly butcher are prevailing against the assumed privileges of a slip-shod tailor, who is seemingly tempted to have recourse to his sheers, to cut the amorous entanglement summarily asunder. On the left, the promiscuous and greedy feeding associated with 'fairings,' is going busily forward, and on the opposite side are exhibited all the drolleries which can be got out of a Jew pedlar, his pack, the diversified actions of customers he is trying to tempt with his wares, and the bargains for finery into which the fair and softer sex are vainly trying to beguile the cunning Hebrew on their own accounts. It seems probable that Rowlandson in his print of Doctor Botherum may have had a certain Doctor Bossy in his eye, a German practitioner of considerable skill, who enjoyed a comfortable private practice, said to have been the last of the respectable charlatans who exhibited in the British metropolis. This benevolent empiric, as Angelo informs us, dispensed medicines and practised the healing art, publicly and gratuitously on a stage, his booth being erected weekly in the midst of Covent-Garden Market, where the mountebank, handsomely dressed and wearing a gold-laced cocked hat, arrived in his chariot with a liveried servant behind. According to the old custom, the itinerant quack-doctor, with his attendant gang, was as constant a visitor at every market-place as the pedlar with his pack."--Grego
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse below image, six on either side of title: High o'er the gaping crowd, on market day, while Andrew drolls the blockheads pence away ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mountebanks -- Tooth Extraction -- Dr. Bossey., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; sheet 373 x 433 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 6 March 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Teeth, Extraction, Jews, City & town life, Plazas, Medicine shows, Audiences, Crowds, Peddlers, and Butchers
Title etched below image., Imperfect; most of the three-row design has been trimmed away, with only the center image in the top row present. Description based on more perfect impression in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.: 59.533.1271., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Medical fees -- Ear trumpets., and Sheet trimmed to 9.2 x 12.6 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 20, 1800 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"A bogus wizard stands raising his wand while a grotesque figure, in answer, snorting fire, emerges in clouds of smoke from a rectangular aperture in the floor (left), dagger in one hand, cup of 'poison' in the other. The dupe, an ugly man in old-fashioned dress, watches terror-struck, while a woman picks his pocket from behind a curtain. A magic circle, with toad, skull, &c, a cat, a book with cabalistic signs, a stuffed crocodile suspended from the ceiling, give the required atmosphere."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Raising the devil
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Devils & demons -- Cabalism., 1 print : etching and aquatint ; plate mark 29.7 x 34.6 cm., and Hand-colored.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12, 1800, by R. Ackerman, No. 101 Strand
Lieutenant Bowling pleading the cause of young Rory to his grandfather
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: Vide, Roderick Random, Vol. I, Chap. III., Illustration to Adventures of Roderick Random., "Plate 1st"--Lower left corner., Originally issued in 1792? See: Grego. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 308-310., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Disease -- Medical equipment -- Officer's uniform -- Furniture: armchair -- Furnishings: portraits -- Architectural details: door frame -- Literature: illustration to Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Medicine in Literature., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 270 x 344 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Smollett, T. 1721-1771. (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Wheelchairs, Military uniforms, Mirrors, and Interiors
"PHYSICORUM: An old man's elongated head, wearing the old-fashioned wig of a doctor. To this is attached a garland of bunches of labelled medicine-bottles and pill-boxes. The 'Drafts are sleeping, purging, composing, emollient, opening, soporific, strength[ening]'. Below are clyster-pipe, syringe, decanter of 'Restorative Drops', and 'Priscription Puffs'. NUNINA: The head of a nun with up-cast eyes. Below are a crowned skull, hourglass, scourge, crucifix, rosary, and book. PUBLICORUM: The jovial drink-blotched head of a publican. To it are attached pipes, 'Tobacco Box', bottles of 'Rum', 'Brandy', and 'Rack'; a tankard; at the base is a punch-bowl filled with lemons."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Titles etched below images., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered 'No. 3' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Publicans -- Doctors' wig -- Medical instruments: clyster-pipe -- Syringe -- Medicine bottles -- Pill boxes -- Crowned skulls -- Rosaries -- Pipes -- Tankards -- Punch-bowls -- Spirits: brandy -- Rum -- Beverages: 'Rack.', Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Physicians caricatured., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 26.5 x 37.4 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint and plate number.
Publisher:
Pub. 15 Augt. 1800 by R. Ackermann at his Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Nuns, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Skulls, Hourglasses, Crucifixes, Pipes (Smoking), Tobacco products, Drinking vessels, and Alcoholic beverages
"Two scenes on one plate. In the top scene a hefty nude woman is helped from a bathing machine into the water by a younger nude woman and older dressed woman. Within the enclosure there are two partially clothed women. In the background there is a second bathing machine with a nude woman shown falling into the water but held around the waist by another figure. In the bottom scene, within an interior by an open fireplace, a hefty nude man falls back in a wooden tub as he is scrubbed by an older woman. At left a young woman pours in hot water from a kettle onto the man."--Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each bearing the signature "Rowlandson 1800" in lower left and Ackermann's imprint below., Bottom image has remnants of an earlier imprint, mostly burnished from plate, following printmaker's signature: Pud. March [...?] 1800 [...?] Adelphi., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of image and text. Description based on a more perfect impression in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.: 59.533.723., For a copy of the top image, published ca. 1820 by Sidebotham, see no. 14099 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 41, 397., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 22.4 x 25.7 cm., and Imperfect; only bottom image entitled "Fresh water" is present, the top image having been trimmed away.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Public baths, Bathing, Nudes, Bathtubs & showers, Fireplaces, Kettles, and Obesity
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 9804. An ugly and elderly woman (the old maid of caricature) stands vomiting into a bucket which stands on a stool. She wears night-cap, stays, and petticoat. A kettle boils on the fire (right). A cat prepares to imitate its mistress. The setting is the corner of a neat, bare sitting-room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet mostly trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Sitting room -- Women: old maids -- Medicine - Furniture: tea table -- Containers -- Pets., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 312 x 220 mm.
Title etched below image., Date supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage and Married Life.
Three figures on horseback, riding right to left. Closest to the viewer is large man holding a whip at his side and wearing a hat; next is the figure of Death as a skeleton, wearing a crown and with head turned towards the large man, grinning; and farthest away is a scowling undertaker, holding a whip and with a broad ribbon on his hat
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Richard Newton is suggested in local catalog record., Approximate date of publication supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reversed version of print published by S.W. Fores in 1796; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.393. See also the reduced copy by Charles Williams that was published in 1806 (No. 10665 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Skeletons, Undertakers, Horseback riding, Whips, and Crowns
