A drawing with two images: the circular image on top shows three women and a man in a picture gallery, their backs to the viewer, discussing a painting on the wall. Below, separated by an image of two feathers, is a rectangular, framed still life with a lobster on a plate surrounded by a headless game bird, a jug, a pitcher, and vegetables
Description:
Title written below image. From a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to 25 March 1761 written from Houghton: A party arrived, just as I did, to see the house, a man and three women in riding-dresses, and they rode post through the apartments. I could not hurry before them fast enough; they were not so long in seeing for the first time, as I could have been in one room, to examine what I knew by heart. I remember formerly being often diverted with this kind of seers; they come, ask what such a room is called, in which Sir Robert lay, write it down, admire a lobster or a cabbage in a market-piece, dispute whether the last room was green or purple, and then hurry to the inn for fear the fish should be overdressed., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 68., and Bound in as page 144 in volume 3 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., In margin upper right: No.61., This electronic 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: Politics, French; Trauma; Head injuries.
Publisher:
chez l'Editeur, rue du Coq, No.4, et Hautcoeur Martinet, même rue and Lith. de Delaunois
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Physician and patient, Wounds and injuries, Sick persons, Physicians, and Spouses
Harper's Weekly (24:1204), page 53. Full page political cartoon about Garcelon of Maine, only relevant for its connection to two other cartoons showing him as a quack doctor. Compare to Harper's Weekly of January 17, 1880, and April 3, 1880. Hansen database #102.
Police Gazette (39:223), cover illustration of a complete issue. "How the legal spouse of a fashionable physician expressed her disapprobation of the course of treatment her husband subjected his pretty patients to; N. Y. City." He's in fancy dark suit (no medical items present) caressing the chin of a fancy young lady with feathered hat and long train, while his wife is behind him ready to crown him with a skull (cranium and face without lower jaw). This image reconfirms that physicians were not yet distinguished visually by any accoutrements. Related story is on page 7. The Police Gazette was a "sporting paper" for young male readers, with scandal and sensation, but sometimes it commented on medical and scientific items repeated from general newspapers. Also includes half page story on Guiteau on page 6. Hansen database #2814