The countess is shown swooning in a chair in her father's house near London Bridge (seen through the window on the left). At her feet a bottle with a label "laudanum" alongside an execution broadside tells us that Silvertongue has been hanged for killing her husband and that she has attempted suicide. Her young child (wearing a leg brace as a result of congenital syphilis) is held up for a last kiss by an old woman, while her father removes her wedding ring. An apothecary strikes the simple-minded servant for procuring the laudanum; a doctor leaves by a door to right. Fire buckets line the hallway. The floor of the room is bare; a heavy chair near a table is overturned, a starving dog chewing at the calf's head on the table. Other decorations include a weight-driven wall-clock, the paintings of Dutch peasant subjects and a man relieving himself against a wall, and a set of ledgers indicates that accounts are kept up to date
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 6
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Series title and number engraved below image., State from Paulson., After the painting "The Lady's Death" in the National Gallery, London., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Children, Death, Dogs, Interiors, Merchants, Nobility, Paintings, Pharmacists, People with disabilities, Physicians, Servants, Suicides, and Syphilis
Plate 21. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The countess is shown swooning in a chair in her father's house near London Bridge (seen through the window on the left). At her feet a bottle with a label "laudanum" alongside an execution broadside tells us that Silvertongue has been hanged for killing her husband and that she has attempted suicide. Her young child (wearing a leg brace as a result of congenital syphilis) is held up for a last kiss by an old woman, while her father removes her wedding ring. An apothecary strikes the simple-minded servant for procuring the laudanum; a doctor leaves by a door to right. Fire buckets line the hallway. The floor of the room is bare; a heavy chair near a table is overturned, a starving dog chewing at the calf's head on the table. Other decorations include a weight-driven wall-clock, the paintings of Dutch peasant subjects and a man relieving himself against a wall, and a set of ledgers indicates that accounts are kept up to date
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 6
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Children, Death, Dogs, Interiors, Merchants, Nobility, Paintings, Pharmacists, People with disabilities, Physicians, Servants, Suicides, and Syphilis
The countess is shown swooning in a chair in her father's house near London Bridge (seen through the window on the left). At her feet a bottle with a label "laudanum" alongside an execution broadside tells us that Silvertongue has been hanged for killing her husband and that she has attempted suicide. Her young child (wearing a leg brace as a result of congenital syphilis) is held up for a last kiss by an old woman, while her father removes her wedding ring. An apothecary strikes the simple-minded servant for procuring the laudanum; a doctor leaves by a door to right. Fire buckets line the hallway. The floor of the room is bare; a heavy chair near a table is overturned, a starving dog chewing at the calf's head on the table. Other decorations include a weight-driven wall-clock, the paintings of Dutch peasant subjects and a man relieving himself against a wall, and a set of ledgers indicates that accounts are kept up to date
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 6
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Series title and number engraved below image., State from Paulson., After the painting "The Lady's Death" in the National Gallery, London., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.6 x 46.2 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 21 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Children, Death, Dogs, Interiors, Merchants, Nobility, Paintings, Pharmacists, People with disabilities, Physicians, Servants, Suicides, and Syphilis
Plate 21. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The countess is shown swooning in a chair in her father's house near London Bridge (seen through the window on the left). At her feet a bottle with a label "laudanum" alongside an execution broadside tells us that Silvertongue has been hanged for killing her husband and that she has attempted suicide. Her young child (wearing a leg brace as a result of congenital syphilis) is held up for a last kiss by an old woman, while her father removes her wedding ring. An apothecary strikes the simple-minded servant for procuring the laudanum; a doctor leaves by a door to right. Fire buckets line the hallway. The floor of the room is bare; a heavy chair near a table is overturned, a starving dog chewing at the calf's head on the table. Other decorations include a weight-driven wall-clock, the paintings of Dutch peasant subjects and a man relieving himself against a wall, and a set of ledgers indicates that accounts are kept up to date
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 6
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to: 38 x 46.3 cm., and On page 121 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Children, Death, Dogs, Interiors, Merchants, Nobility, Paintings, Pharmacists, People with disabilities, Physicians, Servants, Suicides, and Syphilis
An obese woman hoisted upon her servant's back as her doctor's prescribed cure for flatulence. The lady asks: "O! dear, doctor, has John studied the book?", her doctor replies: "Aye, aye; nothing requir'd but my book, page 75 -gently John! Gently! Page 75". The black servant exclaims: "Eh! eh! Missey, you makey wind for true." The doctor has some resemblance to John Abernethy
Alternative Title:
Cure for flatulency
Description:
Title etched below image., "A. Sharpshooter" is the pseudonym of John Phillips; see British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published November 30, 1829, by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Patients, Household employees, Dogs, Flatulence, Black people, House furnishings, Costume, History, Obesity, and Servants
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., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Doctor and patient., 1 print : mezzotint and etching in sepia ink ; sheet 29.5 x 29.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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)
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)
A coat of arms with three inverted tridents, a knight's helmet at the helm surrounded by mantling, and a dog at the crest. Additional foliage surrounds the shield, and a large dragon is to the upper right. Below is the motto Celer Fidelis Atque Sagax.
Subject (Name):
Clobery, R. Glynn
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Armorial bookplates, Dogs, Helmet, Physicians, Shield, and Shields
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[July 1827]
Call Number:
Print01056
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. A scrawny and an obese dog play next to the doctor's stool and bucket. On the wall are a picture of an obese man and a skeletal man and a picture entitled "Specimen of the reduction of a dog, performed by the stomach-pump - in 3 operations"
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a series of "Arithmetic" plates by Henry Heath. For other plates in the series, see British Museum online catalogue, registration nos.: 1985,0119.89; 1985,0119.312-313; 1985,0119.316-317; and 1985,0119.324., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1827 by William Cole, Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Patients, Obesity, Therapeutics, Stomach-pump, Costume, History, Medical equipment & supplies, Medical procedures & techniques, Pails, Dogs, Mirrors, and Stools