- Published / Created:
- [1828]
- Call Number:
- 828.00.00.65
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A rotund doctor, holding a cane under his arm and wearing a wig, looks at his watch as he takes the pulse of very thin man in a dressing gown and night cap who jumps on one leg and wears a look of pain on his face. Above the doctor's head: "You are bespoke!!"
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date from ms. notation below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians and Sleepwear
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A friendly hint [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1785?]
- Call Number:
- 785.00.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Four to one against recovery
- Description:
- Title etched in open letters below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of first letters in title. Missing letters supplied in contemporary hand., Dated from the ms. note on impression at The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on verso of a partially trimmed map: Operations of the siege of the citadel of Antwerp showing the 1st and 2nd parallels and the commencement of the works of the 3rd. London : Published by M. Colnaghi, Decr. 1832., and Mounted to 22 x 28 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Crying, Physicians, and Teachers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Consulting the physicians, or, Four to one against recovery [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1789]
- Call Number:
- Print10018
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on medicine: to right, a man sits on a close stool holding a steaming glass vessel; behind him a doctor reads from a large volume propped against the lid of the stool; he wears a tall hat, large glasses and an ermine-trimmed robe which is held by a man with a moustache, hat, lace-trimmed collar and cloak who carries a sword; men in white pierrot costumes stand on either side behind the doctor each holding a large candle the smoke from which partly obscures the doctor's hat; at the end of the procession are three men in the same costumes carrying clysters on their shoulders; all are in profile to right and have large noses."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attribution to Isaac Cruikshank based on faint "I.C" signature in lower right corner of image., Copied from one of a set of satirical prints on medicine made by Desprez in Sweden in 1789; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1969,0719.2. For a different English copy of the same design, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2007,7058.4., "Dor. Bssi."--Lower left margin., "CAP: &"--Lower right margin., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters -- Water closets -- Dr. Bossey., and Contemporary annotation in ink below title: 'Tis only experiences that teaches proper remedies.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Candles
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Sola experientia vera medicamina docet [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [1726]
- Call Number:
- 726.00.00.26+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print with twelve panels relating to the affair of Mary Toft, "the rabbit breeder": from top left, she is held aloft by two men and a Harlequin or Merry Andrew, she has a rabbit in either hand; she pursues a rabbit while working in a field; she dreams of being impregnated by rabbit, Cupid is shown on a cloud beside her bed holding a rabbit in either hand; she is seated in a chair attended by two women while the two men and Harlequin discuss the monstrous birth; Harlequin demonstrates that he can express milk from her breast; Harlequin feels "the rabbets leapin in her belly" while two men look on; she sits on the edge of a bed and Harlequin kneels to seize a rabbit that emerges from her skirts while a doctor raises his hands in surprise, wishing to anatomize the animal; Harlequin stands behind a table holding a balance in which he weighs dung removed from the rabbit explaining to two men that this will allow him to judge whether the animal had "breath'd in air"; doctors and midwives discuss the phenomenon around a table and Harlequin enters claiming that the birth must be "praeternatural"; a crowd of gentlemen are welcomed to the bagnio in Leicester Square where Toft is housed; two men spy from the door to Toft's room as another hands her a dead rabbit; Toft, weeping, is led away to Bridewell by two constables while Harlequin "sits upon Repenting stool, Cursing his fate in being made a Fool. See British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- New whim wham from Guildford
- Description:
- Title etched above images. and Trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
- Subject (Topic):
- Christianity, Superstition, Demonology, Births, Brothels, Cupids, Fools & jesters, Fraud, Law enforcement, Physicians, Pregnant women, and Rabbits
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The doctors in labour, or, A new whim wham from Guildford being a representation of [the] frauds by which [the] Godliman woman, carried on her pretended rabbit breeding; also of [the] simplicity of our doctors, by which they assisted to carry on that imposture discover'd their own skill, & contributed to [the] Mirth, of His Majesties liege subjects. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1829?]
- Call Number:
- 829.00.00.15+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire against corruption with an image of a huge automaton representing the new London University (later University College, London) tramples over greedy clerics, doctors, lawyers and the crown. Five lines of text below image: "I saw a vision, a giant form appeard, it's eys where [sic] burning lights even of Gas, and on its learned head it bore A Crown of many towers, It's Body was an Engine yea of steam it's arms where [corn?] and the legs with which it stode like unto presses that men called printers use, from whence felt ever and anon small Books that fed the little people of the Earth, It rose and in it's hand it tool a Broom to sweep the rubish [sic] from the face of the land, the Special pleaders & thier [sic] wigs also & the Quack Doctors also and the ghosts & those tha twhear Horns & the Crowns of those kigns that set themselv's above the laws & the Delays in Chancery it utterly destroy'd, likewiase it sweept from the Clergy every Plurality, Nevertheless the Lawyers & the Parsons & divers others kick't up a great dust!!!"
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Date from online British Museum catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- University College, London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Education, Higher, Avarice, Balloons (Aircraft), Clergy, Demons, Justice, Lawyers, Machinery, Physicians, Rulers, and Steam
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The march of intellect [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1825?]
- Call Number:
- Print01050
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A thin man wearing bedclothes and slippers sits on a stool at right, clenching his fists in obvious pain. Three winged demons harass him, one clutching the back of his collar. A well-dressed doctor, wearing spurred boots and glasses, stands before him on the left; two medicine bottles protrude from his jacket pocket, and he holds a third bottle and glass for the patient. Additional bottles and canisters of medicine sit on the table and floor behind the doctor; a skeleton and skull and crossbones are seen above the table
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Print signed "Robert Cruikshank" in ink in lower left., Date assigned by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Devils & demons -- Taking medicine.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians, Sick persons, Stools, Medicines, Bottles, Skeletons, and Boots
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Doctor and patient] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1800?]
- Call Number:
- Print00221
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print shows a group of five grotesquely caricatured men attending to a sixth man identified as Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, who is lecturing them on a skull which he holds up in his left hand. An open volume rests on a lectern beneath the lecturers prominent stomach, and the walls around the group are lined with shelves holding a collection of skulls and busts; the three shelves located behind them at left are labeled: Lawyers, thieves & murderers. - Poets, dramatists, actors. - Philosophers, statesmen & historians
- Alternative Title:
- Dr. Gall's lecture
- Description:
- Title and date supplied by cataloger. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Gall, F. J. 1758-1828 (Franz Joseph), and Gall, F. J. 1758-1828. (Franz Joseph),
- Subject (Topic):
- Craniology, Phrenology, Skull, Science, Physicians, and Lectures and lecturing
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Lecture on the comparative study of skulls by Dr. Gall] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1800?]
- Call Number:
- Print00600
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print shows a group of five grotesquely caricatured men attending to a sixth man identified as Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, who is lecturing them on a skull which he holds up in his left hand. An open volume rests on a lectern beneath the lecturers prominent stomach, and the walls around the group are lined with shelves holding a collection of skulls and busts; the three shelves located behind them at left are labeled: Lawyers, thieves & murderers. - Poets, dramatists, actors. - Philosophers, statesmen & historians
- Alternative Title:
- Dr. Gall's lecture
- Description:
- Title and date supplied by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 241 x 195 mm., and Ink annotation in lower right margin: H.C. from A.C.K. Feb. 1915.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Gall, F. J. 1758-1828 (Franz Joseph), and Gall, F. J. 1758-1828. (Franz Joseph),
- Subject (Topic):
- Craniology, Phrenology, Skull, Science, Physicians, and Lectures and lecturing
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Lecture on the comparative study of skulls by Dr. Gall] [graphic]