V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The patient lies in a large bed (right), sourly watching four ugly doctors (left) who sit in consultation, their knees close together. Two put old-fashioned gold-headed canes to their mouths. They say respectively: "We must throw in the Bark" [quinine]; "It is all brought on by Drinking"; What you say is very true"; "We must abate the thirst and then cure the fever". The patient says: "Aye aye. I hear you but Ill tell you how to save half the trouble cure the fever, & send me a nice cool tankard of Madeira and Ill abate the thirst myself"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Consultation of doctors on the case of Sir Toby Bumper
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; "No. 13" has been removed from upper right corner and replaced with a new plate number, and date has been burnished from end of imprint statement., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, Feb. 26, 1807. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.02.26.01.1., Plate numbered "225" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consultations., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.2 x 34.7 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Alcohol, Fever, Quinine, Physicians, Staffs (Sticks), Beds, and Sick persons
A man with a gouty foot sits at a table on which a caraffe and decanter sit with a glass. The figure of the devil sits in an upholsered armchair grinning at the man as he pours a glass of liquid on his head. To their right a skeleton on a three-legged stool is engaged in conversation with a clergy man, both holding glasses of wine. Between the pairs above their heads is written, "A fig for sack & sherry, Our cans we'll clink. Our liquor we'll drink, And we'll be wonderous merry."
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent., 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: Skeleton as death -- Demons & devils.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Gout, Alcoholic beverages, Devil, Physicians, Pitchers, Sick persons, Skeletons, Stools, and Undertakers
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Printseller's announcement beneath imprint statement: Folios of caricatures lent &c., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Villagers -- Furniture: slipcovered armchair., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Unsuccessful treatment., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.0 x 23.9 cm.
"Satire on medicine: to right, a man sits on a close stool holding a steaming glass vessel; behind him a doctor reads from a large volume propped against the lid of the stool; he wears a tall hat, large glasses and an ermine-trimmed robe which is held by a man with a moustache, hat, lace-trimmed collar and cloak who carries a sword; men in white pierrot costumes stand on either side behind the doctor each holding a large candle the smoke from which partly obscures the doctor's hat; at the end of the procession are three men in the same costumes carrying clysters on their shoulders; all are in profile to right and have large noses."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Isaac Cruikshank based on faint "I.C" signature in lower right corner of image., Copied from one of a set of satirical prints on medicine made by Desprez in Sweden in 1789; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1969,0719.2. For a different English copy of the same design, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2007,7058.4., "Dor. Bssi."--Lower left margin., "CAP: &"--Lower right margin., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters -- Water closets -- Dr. Bossey., and Contemporary annotation in ink below title: 'Tis only experiences that teaches proper remedies.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Candles
"Hand-to-hand encounters between surgeons, indicated by their instruments and their old-fashioned dress, and barbers, wearing aprons and also with the tools of their trade. In the centre a barber seizes the wig and neck-cloth of his antagonist, who says: "Take care of my Wig I had it new to go down to the House". The other answers: "I ll dress your wig for you Master Bolus - you Bleed indeed - why I let as much blood for a penny, as you charge a pound for". A barber (left) bends over his prostrate victim (who cries murder murder), saying, "I'll teach you to despise Gentlemen Barbers you pitiful Pill monger." A stout well-dressed surgeon (right) raises his tasselled cane to strike a terrified and ragged barber, saying: "Ill teach you, you beggarly Scoundrel to call yourself Barber-surgeon & poking out your Damn'd Pole - when I am riding in my Chariot". The other screams "O Dear Brother Dressum youll throttle me I take in my Pole Damn the Cutting Part of the business". Behind (left), under a barber's pole from which hangs a barber's basin, a surgeon raises his cane to smite a fleeing barber. In the background two other couples are fighting. See British Museum Satires No. 9092, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Surgeons -- Barbers surgeons -- Company of Surgeons.
Publisher:
Pub. August 14, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Royal College of Surgeons in London. and Barbers Company (London, England)
Title from item., Printseller's statement in lower right: Folios of caricatures lent., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- Wines: port., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drugs -- Prescriptions -- Alcohol -- Physicians caricatured., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; image and text 231 x 236 mm.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Sackvile [sic] St., Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Obesity, Alcoholic beverages, and Surgical instruments