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1. A comical case [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 4 June, 1791.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three doctors, grinning with satisfaction, stand in conference in an apothecary's shop. One (left), very corpulent, his spectacles pushed up on his forehead, holds a bottle labelled 'The Draughts as before Mr Costive'. His vis-à-vis stands chapeau-bras, holding a cane. Both wear old-fashioned dress with tie-wigs. The third, standing behind and between them is more fashionably dressed. On the counter (right) is a pestle and mortar, pill-box, and medicine phials, one labelled going to rest. Behind it are shelves on which are glass jars of varying sizes containing coloured liquids."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "608" in lower left corner., No. 45 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Drugstores, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Physicians, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A comical case [graphic].
2. A high German doctor, or, A cure for a complaint in the bowels [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1803]
- Call Number:
- 803.01.01.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Cure for a complaint in the bowels
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered '285' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Four lines of text below title: Well Norse how was mine patient by dish time? -Much better Sir, the medicines had great effect ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: German Physicians -- Medicine Bottles -- Harlequins -- Medical Disease: Colitis.
- Publisher:
- Published Jany. 1st, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians, Medicines, Bedrooms, and Diseases
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A high German doctor, or, A cure for a complaint in the bowels [graphic].
3. An address of thanks from the faculty to the Right Hon'ble Mr. Influenzy for his kind visit to the country / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [20 April 1803]
- Call Number:
- 803.04.20.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the left an emaciated patient sits in a commode chair next to a table filled with medicine bottles with labels reading: James's Powders, [La]udanum, Sweating Draught, Opening Draught, Emetic. Beneath are a cask labeled "Peruvian bark" and a jug labeled 'Garlic". From the right a group of nine physicians carry letters of thanks to their "friend" Influenza and converse about the benefits they have reaped from his visitation to the city
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives; Unsuccessful treatments; Peruvian Bark; Angelica root & nitre; Infectious diseases., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 20th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Newbery, Francis, 1743-1818.
- Subject (Topic):
- Influenza, Opium, Cinchona bark, Laxatives, Death, Clothing & dress, Medicines, and Physicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An address of thanks from the faculty to the Right Hon'ble Mr. Influenzy for his kind visit to the country / [graphic]
4. Doctor Blowbladder discovering the perpetual motion [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, 16 March 1772.
- Call Number:
- 772.03.16.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An elderly doctor in an old-fashioned wig, holding his silver-headed cane to his nose, takes the pulse of a young woman seated on a sofa. Her eyes are averted to avoid his leering gaze. A bottle of "Blessed Medicine" protrudes from his left pocket
- Description:
- Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Medicine bottles -- Female dress, 1772 -- Canes.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians, Young adults, Women, Medicines, Bottles, Staff (Sticks), and Wallpapers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Doctor Blowbladder discovering the perpetual motion [graphic].
5. Doctor [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 September 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.09.10.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- Medicine bottles -- Food: reference to beans & bacon.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Septr. 10, 1799, by R. Akerman, Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Drugs, Pulse, Diet, Physicians, Medicines, and Bottles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Doctor [graphic]
6. Doctors differ and their patients die [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 December 1794]
- Call Number:
- 794.12.24.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A patient, wrapped in shroud-like draperies, sits (left) in a high-backed arm-chair gazing up and to the left. Two doctors in the foreground fight each other, overturning a round table on which are medicine-phials. A lean doctor (left) flourishes the wig of his fat opponent, whom he clutches by the neck-cloth. The fat doctor (right) siezes the other's pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '143' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Fist-fights -- Medicine bottles -- Walking staves -- Furniture: armchairs.
- Publisher:
- Published 23th Decr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians, Fighting, Sick persons, Medicines, Wigs, Staffs (Sticks), Chairs, and Tables
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Doctors differ and their patients die [graphic].
7. Ireland in Scotland, or, A trip from Oxford to the land of cakes [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [June 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.06.00.01.1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 4. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A fashionably dressed man stands directed to the left, erect and debonair, a cane under his left arm. He takes a pinch of snuff, holding, besides the snuff-box, his top-hat. He has whiskers and small pigtail. From his coat-pocket projects a bottle labelled 'Two Spoonsfull to be taken at Bed time'. On the ground is a pill-box on its side, spilling its contents. He wears two thistles in the breast of his coat; a thistle-plant grows near his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Trip from Oxford to the land of cakes
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Prescriptions -- Thorn stick canes -- Scotland -- Male costume: 1809 -- Snuff boxes., and Watermark: 1814.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Ireland, John, 1745-1839
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians, Medicines, Pills, Staffs (Sticks), Snuff, and Thistles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ireland in Scotland, or, A trip from Oxford to the land of cakes [graphic]
8. Ireland in Scotland, or, A trip from Oxford to the land of cakes [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [June 1807]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 4. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A fashionably dressed man stands directed to the left, erect and debonair, a cane under his left arm. He takes a pinch of snuff, holding, besides the snuff-box, his top-hat. He has whiskers and small pigtail. From his coat-pocket projects a bottle labelled 'Two Spoonsfull to be taken at Bed time'. On the ground is a pill-box on its side, spilling its contents. He wears two thistles in the breast of his coat; a thistle-plant grows near his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Trip from Oxford to the land of cakes
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Prescriptions -- Thorn stick canes -- Scotland -- Male costume: 1809 -- Snuff boxes., Leaf 4 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.2 x 19.8 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads & Co. 1808., and Figure identified as "Mr. Ireland" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Ireland, John, 1745-1839
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians, Medicines, Pills, Staffs (Sticks), Snuff, and Thistles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ireland in Scotland, or, A trip from Oxford to the land of cakes [graphic]
9. Ireland in Scotland, or, A trip from Oxford to the land of cakes [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [June 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.06.00.01.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A fashionably dressed man stands directed to the left, erect and debonair, a cane under his left arm. He takes a pinch of snuff, holding, besides the snuff-box, his top-hat. He has whiskers and small pigtail. From his coat-pocket projects a bottle labelled 'Two Spoonsfull to be taken at Bed time'. On the ground is a pill-box on its side, spilling its contents. He wears two thistles in the breast of his coat; a thistle-plant grows near his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Trip from Oxford to the land of cakes
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Prescriptions -- Thorn stick canes -- Scotland -- Male costume: 1809 -- Snuff boxes.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Ireland, John, 1745-1839
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians, Medicines, Pills, Staffs (Sticks), Snuff, and Thistles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ireland in Scotland, or, A trip from Oxford to the land of cakes [graphic]