"Illustration to the Oxford Magazine, 1768, vol.1 facing p.52, satirizing the dispute between the licentiates and fellows of the College of Physicians. Licentiates, mostly dressed in tartan and so identified as Scots, break through a door into a room in the College. At a table on the right, a group of fellows presided over by Death (a skeleton in official robes and wig) recoil, crying, ""These Northern Locusts want to Govern every where", "My fingers itch to be at them", "D[a]m their Scots Pills! they have ruin'd the Constituion of England" and "They pretend to cure the Kings Evil". The attackers are led by a licentiate in a zany's dress and jack-boots (a reference to Lord Bute) holding a shield and flail; he is followed by another man, who holds a large pair of shears; others flourish a pestle, a dagger and a club. In the foreground a Scot directs a clyster at one of the fellows hitting him in the mouth with a jet of liquid. A fellow has pushed a licentiate to the ground and is pouring the contents of a urinal into his throat. On the floor lies an enormous urinal, pillboxes and medicne bottle, and a soldier's haversack, labelled, "St Georges Composing Pills prepared by Dr Gillam." ( a reference to the magistrate who ordered soldiers to fire on the crowd gathered in St George's Fields in support of John Wilkes on 10 May 1768)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Battle between the fellows & licenciates and Battle between the fellows and licenciates
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: Sept. 23, 1767, based on the date of events satirized by this print., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), page 52., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the events of 23 September 1767 -- Fellows -- Licenciates -- Zanies -- Clyster pipe -- Reference to riot at St. George's Fields, May 10, 1768 -- Reference to Lord Bute -- Reference to Justice Samuel Gillam, fl. 1768.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Royal College of Physicians of London. and Royal College of Physicians of London,
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Interiors, Medical education, Medical equipment & supplies, Pharmacists, Physicians, Riots, Skeletons, and Tailors
"Bedroom scene: an invalid in a dressing-gown sits smiling in an arm-chair, while a fat yawning doctor, 'Quiet', puts a night-cap on his head. On the right 'Merryman', dressed as a zany or clown, with a gridiron painted on the back of his striped tunic, kicks Death towards the door (right), and presses his cap like an extinguisher against its grinning skull; he says: "Be Off! Be Off! you have no chance where Diet Merryman and Quiet practice!" Death answers: "Then my first job must be to quiet you and your partners will soon follow." Quiet: "Come now for a little quiet; Merrymans dose has opperated suficiently!" The patient holds a 'merrythought'. A fat cook, 'Diet', stands on the left inspecting a dish of bare chicken bones; he says, grinning broadly: "He'll do! Pick'd the bones clean! We shall beat the Charlotte Street Medical Board hollow!" A dinner-table, with an empty plate, a decanter of 'Madiera' and a loaf, is on the left, and behind it a large canopied bed. The chimneypiece (right), is covered with medicine-bottles. The floor is boarded. On it lie two piles of 'Carricatures', evidently the 'Caricature Magazine', on which the imprint is inscribed. There are also books lettered 'Jests'. A puff for Tegg's Magazine, cf. British Museum Satires No. 11976."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Numbered "380" in upper right corner of design., Temporary local subject terms: Bed curtains -- Doctors., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Diet -- Dr. Merryman -- Dr. Quiet -- *Charlotte Street Medical Board -- Skeleton as Death -- Diet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Bedrooms, Physicians, Skeletons, Clowns, Draperies, Canopy beds, Cooks, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Fireplaces, and Bottles
"Satire on the professions of medicine, law and the church with three practitioners in a well furnished interior disputing which is the superior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document; the clergyman a book letterd "Bals. Soul" and the physicial a phial lettered, "Bals. Life". Pictures on the wall show, men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tythes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside. Verses below with scrolling calligraphic decoration."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., and Sixteen lines of verse in two columns below title: Law, physick, and divinity, contend which shall superior be ...
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1772]
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.03.01.02.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a country barber-surgeon: a bespectacled man holding a lancet and razor stands in profile to right, a basin under his right arm, beside his shop-sign which bears an image of a wig; the village stocks can be seen beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Later state with slight alterations in design. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Surgery -- Lancet -- Scratches -- Food: Reference to sausages -- Reference to washballs -- Reference to black pudding -- Red herrings -- Medicine: Reference to Scotch pills -- Reference to powder for the itch.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 1, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Barbering, Medical equipment & supplies, Pharmacists, Physicians, Shaving equipment, Signs (Notices), Stocks (Punishment), and Wigs
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 111. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a barber in profile outside his shop holding out his instruments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Early state of the plate, before drypoint shading added to the figure's face and hair. For a later state with this additional shading, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.94., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left side., Temporary local subject terms: Surgeons -- Signboards -- Medical instruments: Lancet -- Barbers implements: Razor and shaving dish -- Bob wigs -- Bob-majors wigs -- Scratches wigs -- Food: Reference to sausages -- Reference to washballs -- Black pudding -- Medicine: Reference to Scotch pills -- Reference to powder for the itch., and Mounted on page 111 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 1, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Barbering, Medical equipment & supplies, Pharmacists, Physicians, Shaving equipment, Signs (Notices), Stocks (Punishment), and Wigs
An old woman wearing a white apron and bonnet sits in a chair, with two canes at her side. She is bandaging the hand of a tearful young woman, while another young woman looks on. A cat sits in the ledge beneath a casement window
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '199' in lower right corner of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : mezzotint ; plate mark 15.2 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19 x 14 cm., and Year in imprint statement has been partially erased from sheet and final two digits have been altered in ms.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th June 1787 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clothing & dress, Clothes chests, Crutches, Physicians, and Women
An old woman wearing a white apron and bonnet sits in a chair, with two canes at her side. She is bandaging the hand of a tearful young woman, while another young woman looks on. A cat sits in the ledge beneath a casement window
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '199' in lower right corner of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th June 1787 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clothing & dress, Clothes chests, Crutches, Physicians, and Women
Title etched above image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Four lines of text below image: Buck -- Oh, doctor, I am happy you are come, or I shou'd have certainly bled to death ..., Plate numbered '245' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Young men -- Female dress, 1800 -- Furnishings: carpet.
Publisher:
Published 20th May 1800, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London