Title from item., Publication date extrapolated from dates of publisher's operation at the address given in imprint. See I. Maxted's London book trades, 1775-1800, p. 113., Copy with variant title. Cf. No. 5261 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Satirized musette -- Animals: boar -- Furniture: music stand -- Wooden legs., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life., Mounted on page 89 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 23.7 x 30.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.03.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life., Mounted to 32 x 43 cm., Watermark: L.V.G., and Some ink wash added as additional shading to figures' clothing.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
Title from text below image., Several lines of a song sung to the tune "The young may moon" engraved below image: A dandy beau is all the go, so I resolved to change my plan ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1815.
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... who has just fitted up his exhibition in an entire novel stile [sic], admittance one shillg. NB. folios of caracatures [sic] lent., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Morganatic marriages: George IV to Mrs. Fitzherbert, Dec. 15, 1785 -- Deeds: George IV to Mrs. Fitzherbert -- Bible: I, Kings, 11, 3, altered quotation -- Pictures amplifying subject: King Solomon.
Publisher:
Pub. August 26 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
"Wood is seated on horseback in profile to the right, his gun in his left hand. He has a grotesquely large nose, and has a somewhat clerical appearance. In the background (right) beyond a piece of water is the façade of a large house with a pediment, evidently Mulgrave Castle, and a church."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state of a plate first published by Darly on 11 August 1772., Plate numbered '17' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Game keepers -- Buildings: country house -- Country houses: Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire -- Buildings: country churches., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Title etched below image., Text following imprint: of whom all the other East India caricatures may be had., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: India., Watermark: Smith & Allnut 1816., and Publication date changed to "1803" from "1811" in manuscript.
Publisher:
Pub. Feby 1803, by Willm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
Title from caption below center image., Printmaker from title page of series., Publisher and date of publication from other prints in the series., Five designs on one plate, each individually titled., First in a series of prints with variant series names on title page and later prints: Tregear's scraps, Scraps, etc., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Country girls -- Tools: rakes -- Furniture: dressing tables -- Furnishings: dressing table mirror on stand -- Cosmetics: rouge -- Glass: perfume bottles., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 20.1 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 24 x 29 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg bend [partially cut off] with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Published 18th March 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London