Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print originally published by S.W. Fores in 1795., Plate is part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate is numbered in lower left corner: No. 1 pl. 8., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: undertakers' hat .
Two physicians standing in an unfurnished room examine contents of a urinal that one of them is holding up for inspection in one hand while raising a large pocket watch in the other hand. Both wear fashionable bag wigs. Behind them on the wall hang two old-fashioned doctors' wigs. Propped up next to each wig is a gold-headed cane
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark, mostly trimmed., and A list of names of possible subjects has been added in later hand on verso. It includes Matthew Maty, Oliver Goldsmith, William Hunter and John Fothergill, among a few other, illegible names.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 18 June 1772, by T. Jeffrys, Charing Cross
An obese doctor in a dressing gown and slippers stands in the center looking right at a group of three male patients, all elderly and with diseased and contorted faces. He hands a small bowl to one patient; medical supplies are laid out on the table at his side as well as on the floor near the table. Another patient while another leaves the room leaning on a crutch. In the background two women in obvious pain await their turn; behind them, an open cupboard reveals a skeleton
Description:
Title from item., "One of a set of copies of watercolours by Rowlandson, all with an imitation of his signature and the same imprint"--British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Eady, Dr., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 34 x 26 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Published by Reeve & Jones, No. 7 Vere Strt
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Pain, Physical characteristics, Physicians, Sick persons, and Skeletons
Title assigned by cataloger., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Plate numbered "134" in lower right corner.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
1st March 1782.
Call Number:
782.03.01.02.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly doctor wearing a wig rides a wretched-looking horse. The rider looks fierce; pulling on the reins, he looks ready to use his whip to slash the sorry horse
Alternative Title:
Doctor Dawdle in a hurry
Description:
Title from later state., Title written in pencil beneath image., Early state, before title engraved below image. For the later state bearing title, see no. 6142 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7., Printed on a single sheet with: Symptoms of running away / Js. Bretherton f. Dated January 9, 1782., Collector's stamp: letter 'E' in lower left corner, on verso., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Title from British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of engraved British Portraits, v.5, p. 59, Numbered '167' in upper right corner., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Temporary local subject terms: James Rae -- Dentists -- William Laing -- James Hay -- Doctors.
The surgeon Alexander Wood is depicted full length and facing left, walking with an umbrella under his left arm
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '68' in lower right of plate., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed.)., Printmaker and title from volume., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
On the left a thin man stands stiffly in profile to the right his head thrown back, chapeau-bras, and holding a muff. A very stout man on the rights stands full-face, his hands behind his back, looking up quizzically
Description:
Title from manuscript note., Variant state with title provide only in manuscript in a contemporary hand; no engraved title., Plate for: Rules for drawing caricaturas / by F. Grose. London : Printed by A. Grant, 1788., and Variant state. Cf. No. 7467 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Title, printmaker, and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom and left., and Thirteen lines of text below the image: Dr. Bastwick, for writing a booke against popish bishops ...