Description from similar print in Lewis Walpole Library: A sleeping clergyman sits in an armchair, oblivious to a maid tickling his nose with the tail of a sucking pig, just delivered by a man standing in the open doorway. On a table is an inkstand and quill, a wine bottle, glass and candle with a book entitled "Tythe laws fully consider'd". At cat pulls from the table a paper labelled "Bans of marriage", while on the floor near a small dog a large book lies open to "Poem on good living". The clergyman's portrait and that of a woman hang on the wall behind him beside a map entitled "A Plan of the doctor's parish."
Description:
Title below image., Date supplied by curator., Below title is a poem in three columns: "The well fed rich Doctor now Dinner is o'er, In his Arm Chair gives way to an Afternoon's snore ..., In margin lower right: 102., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, at their Map and ... Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Tithes, Clothing & dress, Practical jokes, Dogs, and Swine
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., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives; Unsuccessful treatments; Peruvian Bark; Angelica root & nitre; Infectious diseases.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a landscaped park. Next to him lie a dice box and dice, playing cards, tickets to masquerades, a broken framgment of an EO table, billiard balls and cues, a pedigree, and a book inscribed "Rambler" [i.e., The rambler's magazine, first published in 1783]. In the background stands a garden folly
Alternative Title:
Essay on man
Description:
Title from item., Artist suggested in Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977., Originally published ca. 1760. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3792., Plate numbered '519' in lower left corner., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 348 x 245 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
A satire on women's fashion. Three women stand outside and strike poses that show off their attire: dresses that expose their breasts and/or legs, and extravagant headdresses adorned with pearls or large feathers
Alternative Title:
Lunatics out of Bedlam!
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's street address and date of publication have been mostly removed from end of imprint statement; month and day of publication from Alexander., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Clothing & dress, Women, Fans (Accessories), and Feathers
A man stands in the center of his dressing room with an expression of pain on his face as he pulls open one of his eye lids to expose a large black speck in its center. He stands in what appears to be his dressing room, dressed in a waistcoat, nightcap, heavy stockings over his trousers, and slippers.The table is filled with medicine bottles and a vial. His clothes hang from a dresser drawer, a laundry washtub, brushes, and a bar of soap lie off to its side under the window. A blanket has been thrown on the back of the upholstered chair with castors. Small weights for lifting lie on the rug beside the chair
Description:
Title etched below image., 'Ego' is the pseudonym of M. Egerton. See British Museum catalogue., Caption below title: I wish you'd take it out. There's always something the matter with me!, 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: Eye disorders.
A scene inside an apothecary’s shop, with a surprised looking apothecary standing behind the counter serving a shifty looking male customer wearing a Scottish bonnet cap and tartan trousers. Behind the counter is a labelled drug run (a set of drawers for storing medicinal ingredients) and labelled drug jars (for storing prepared medicines); on and in front of the counter are pestles and mortars. The shop has carboys and drug jars on display in the windows to the right. The apothecary holds a plaster iron in his hand and is in the process mixing a preparation. See: Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum online, Attitudes to Health Collection, Reference 997.17.7.
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of dialogue etched below title: Please Dockthar to gee me a baubee's worth o' brimstane, its no for mysel but for anither gentleman thats outside., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior.
"A fat ugly woman sits squarely on a stool, in stays and petticoat with clumsy ungartered stockings. Three women, grotesquely ugly, advance towards her, one with a cap, the other with a petticoat, a third with a chamber-pot. On the ground are combs, hair-tongs, tankard, pin-cushion, fan, and garters, one inscribed 'Set thy thoughts on things above'. Said to be a satire on 'some vulgar fashionable'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1800 -- Female fashion -- Pincushions -- Tankards -- Garters -- Hair-tongs., and 1 print : etching and stipple engraving with aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.3 x 35.6 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Venus (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Vanity and pride, Clothing & dress, Fans (Accessories), Drinking vessels, Chamber pots, and Combs
"A 'cit', ugly and elderly, sits full face at right angles to the fire (right). He has been suddenly awakened by two squalling cats behind him (left) and registers surprise and terror, with staring eyes and gaping, distorted mouth. Both hands are raised, and he has flung back the bandanna which covered his face. The room suggests prosperity: carved marble chimney-piece surmounted by mirror or picture, carpet, hearth-rug, low-backed arm-chair of modern shape."--British Museum online catalogue description of Gillray print of 1806 after which this is a copy
Description:
Title etched below image., From: The Caricatures of Gillray, With Historical & Political Anecdotes. London: John Miller, 1818., and Original work created 1806.
Publisher:
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Waking, Cats, Parlors, Fireplaces, and Clothing & dress
A fashionable interior (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician at a harpsichord (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, Farinelli), a fencing master, a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master, a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey. In the background on the left in an antechamber, a man holds a letter entitled "Epistle to Rake ..."
Alternative Title:
Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ... and Surrounded by artists and professors
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Fifth state; the floor under the dancing master's feet has been darkened, his coat under his violin has added hatching, and the fold of Rakewell's dressing gown behind the violin is now crosshatched., Restrike of the fifth state of the plate, which was issued in The original works of William Hogarth (London : Sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790). It was later reissued, with some lines strengthened by the engraver James Heath, in The works of William Hogarth (London : Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ..., 1822); another edition was published by Baldwin & Cradock in 1835. See Paulson., Caption below image in four columns begins: "Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles), how soon, sweet foe, can all they train of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain ...", and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Patients, Psychiatric -- Insanity.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults