A man cavorting with a young woman, while his recently deceased wife lies in a coffin in the background. Lying next to a treasure chest is an open book which reads: "A smokey house and a scolding wife are the plague of mans life. Oh what pleasure well about when my wife is laid in ground".
Alternative Title:
Cure for the heart ache
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted text below title: "Were I not resolv'd against the yoke of hapless marriage, never to be curs'd with second love, so fatal was the first, to this one error I might yield again. Dryden., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life.
Publisher:
Design'd and pubd. by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St., Adelphi
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Death, Coffins, Courtship, Sexual attraction, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, and Costume
"View of the western side of one of the large galleries occupied by females, in the hospital in Old Street, London; women patients occupy the space in various states of distress; a few nurses work on the few beds laid out; a man stands in right corner inspecting the scene."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Saint Luke's Hospital
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 121., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 77., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, interior -- Patients, psychiatric., 1 print : aquatint with etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.3 x 27.5 cm., and Plate number erased from upper right corner of sheet?
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Great Britain., England, and London.
"Interior of a board room in the Royal College of Physicians, on Warwick Lane, in London; physicians seated around long central table, three men stand in a separate group to the right next to three busts on the wall; an old man peers at a piece of paper by the light of one of the long tall arched windows on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 134., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 20., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Examination for license -- Medical students., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.6 x 28.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 May 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Name):
Royal College of Physicians of London,
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Conference rooms, Windows, Chandeliers, and Physicians
"Interior of a board room in the Royal College of Physicians, on Warwick Lane, in London; physicians seated around long central table, three men stand in a separate group to the right next to three busts on the wall; an old man peers at a piece of paper by the light of one of the long tall arched windows on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 134., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 20., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Examination for license -- Medical students., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.6 x 28.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 May 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Name):
Royal College of Physicians of London,
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Conference rooms, Windows, Chandeliers, and Physicians
Title etched below image., Early state, before plate numbering altered. For a later state numbered "274" in upper right, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 265., Publisher and date of publication from later state described in Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered "320" in upper right corner of design., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Gluttony, Eating & drinking, Food, Dining tables, Servants, Women domestics, and Dogs
"A handsome well-dressed young courtesan leads the way out of a room, her left hand on the door-handle, her right held behind her to take the guineas which an aged and decrepit old rake gives her with a leer. A handsome well-furnished room is indicated. Above the chimney-piece is a heavily-framed picture of Danaë catching the shower of gold (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9813)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Female physician in full practice
Description:
Title etched below image. and Plate numbered "72" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1st, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside