[The speech of Waltho Van Claturbank, High German doctor] [graphic].

Description

Title: [The speech of Waltho Van Claturbank, High German doctor] [graphic].
Creator: Slater, T., active approximately 1713, printmaker
Contributor: Bowles, John, 1701-1779, publisher.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 1766]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Jno. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: "A broadside satirising a quack in London; with an engraving showing a street scene, a varied crowd of people surrounding "Waltho Van Claturbank, High German Doctor", on horseback, offering packages of remedies; behind him is his zany or fool, also on horseback; among the crowd are a number of children, including boy with a monkey, and two women selling fruit, one from a wheelbarrow the other from a basket on her head; with ... text in three columns; late impression of a print first published in 1713."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from British Museum catalogue.
Printmaker from statement of responsibility "T. Slater sculp." on original issue of the print, which also bore the title "Pharmacopola circumforaneus, or, The horse doctor's harangue to [the] credulous mob" that is not present of this reissue; cf. Wellcome Collection online catalogue, reference: 575019i.
"The plate would have been published by T Harrison in 1713 (information from Malcolm Jones based on impressions in the Wellcome Institute and Library of Congress) and later acquired by John Bowles who was in business from 1729; this impression was published after his son Carington Bowles went into business in St Pauls Church Yard c. 1766."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.13211.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Three columns of engraved text beneath image, printed from a separate plate: Gentlemen, I Waltho Van Claturbank, High German doctor, chymist & dentifricator ...
Provenance: From the Ricky Jay collection. Sold at Forum Auctions, 27 February 2025, lot 7, to Jarndyce for The Lewis Walpole Library.
Extent: 1 print : irregular sheet 43 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English