A well-dressed young woman visiting her smallpocked uncle, delivers three oranges. Dressed in a robe and nightcap, he sits in a upholstered chair with his feet on a pillow, his face and hands covered in pustules; beside him is a table with a pitcher, glass and carafe. On the wall behind is a landscape; to the left a fireplace
Alternative Title:
Petite vèrole
Description:
Title engraved below image., An 'E' enclosed within a heart, etched lower left below image., Date from Bibliothèque nationale de France., "Déposé à la direction Gale.", and Mounted on secondary support.
Publisher:
Chez Gautier rue Poupée, no. 7
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Smallpox, Diseases, Sick persons, Clothing & dress, Sick, and Visiting the sick
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[October 1807]
Call Number:
807.10.00.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
From her bed with bed curtains, an ill-looking woman with an imploring look on her face from her bed reaches for her nurse who is asleep in an armchair with her back to her patient and her feet on a cushion. She is very fat and coarse looking as she sits in front of a fire. The candle stick has fallen from the table and lies unobserved smoking on the floor at her feet, the snuffer also on the floor beside a cat who grabs the food from a plate that has also fallen to the floor. The table by the nurse's elbow holds medicine bottles as well as dishware. More medicine bottles are on the mantel and at her feet. A pot warms over the fire
Alternative Title:
While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse
Description:
Title etched below image., Five lines of text below title: While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse, who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort, leaves your door wide open, stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark: John Hall 1805
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Medicines, Nurses, Accidents, and Sick persons
In an elegantly furnished sitting room, a man sits at a table in a dressing gown and night cap, his tongue hanging out of his mouth and his gouty leg resting on a foot stool as his pulse is taken by a physician (right). The physician looks at a pocket watch with a long chain; he also holds a walking stick in his right hand. The ill man is in the midst of putting together an elaborate dinner party. In addition to an inkstand with quill pens, on the table is a book, "Glasse's art of cookery" open to a recipe on how "to dress a turtle". On the table is an envelope addressed "To Ald. Guttle, London" and one to "Sr. A. Pepperpor" and a letter inviting the Alderman to dine. Another document contains the "bill of fare" which lists turtle soup, venison, chickens, hams, pheasents, etc. At his feet a dog scratches as a cat approaches. On the left a pretty, much young woman leans agains a chair as she watches the scene. The room is decorated with a map of the West Indies over the elegant mantelpiece on which sit a statute of a goat and two candlesticks whose bases are obese figures sitting cross-legged. Two other portraits on either side of the fireplace: on the left a cupid-like figure holding two strings to which are attached two doves; on the right, a portrait of a corpulent man in a wig
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Doctor and patient.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 22d, 1784, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Pulse, Cats, Chimneypieces, Clocks & watches, Dogs, Health care, Maps, Physicians, Pictures, Rugs, Sick persons, and Staffs (Sticks)
"The invalid, unshaven, in a nightcap, and wearing a dressing-gown over unfastened waistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings, stands as in British Museum Satires No. 9584, grimacing with disgust at a cup of medicine, the bottle in his left hand. In place of the fireplace is a table on which are medicine bottles, pill-box, and a small case inscribed 'Tractors', see British Museum Satires No. 9761. Behind him is a commode. A strip of bed-curtain appears on the extreme right. A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 9805. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 10304, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., An imitation of Gillray's print of the same title; cf. No. 9584 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Physic -- Medicine bottles -- Pill boxes -- Close stools., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives -- Toilet facilities.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Laxatives, Tractors, Metallic, Medicines, Medical procedures & techniques, and Sick persons
With the Tower of London visible in the background, a quack doctor on a platform holds up a bottle of medicine before a small crowd of city folk, as his assistant passes out handbills. Among the crowd is a carter with his whip, a chimney sweep's boy, and an obese woman. On the platform behind the doctor are several invalids, including a man with a crutch. A sign attached to the platform reads "Doctor Van Cheatall."
Description:
Title from item., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Numbered "11" in plate., and Probably an earlier version of no. 6757 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Tower of London (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Patent medicines, Sick persons, Quacks, Clothing & dress, Crowds, and City & town life
"An elderly invalid sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, looking down, with gaping mouth and face distorted with terror. Round him dance in a circle, holding hands, seven grotesque little naked demons, one wearing large jack-boots. On a round table (right) are a medicine-phial and a book: 'Essay on the Power of Imagination'. The parted curtains of the bed form a background. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 9391, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Imagination -- Furniture: armchairs -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Medicinal: medicine bottle -- Invalids -- Jack-boots., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & devils.
Plate [156] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Cromwell's daughter lying on her sick-bed, gesturing to right at a portrait of Charles I as she exhorts her father to repentance, while he sits on the end of her bed to left, pointing to heaven, his back to the portrait"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Daughter of Cromwell urging him to repentance
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [156] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, and Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649,
A man sits in an armchair facing right, resting his gouty left foot on a footrest; a cane rests between his legs. He rings a bell and looks over his right shoulder at a young servant who is leaving the room through a door on the left. A hill is visible through a window on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
Decr., 1806.
Call Number:
806.12.00.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
One of the miseries of life
Description:
A large image of a man in a chair his one leg in a huge bandage above a footstool. He is in a rage as he holds up his crutch and screams "How the plague should you like it." Two small men in the background (right) cower as they look at him; they stand on a book with the title "On fellow feeling". To the left and right on the ground at his side are stacks of books including: Dr. K On the gout; Work der wonders, etc., Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand