- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1847]
- Call Number:
- Print00571
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A sickly goose, lying in an armchair, surrounded by anthropomorphic pill bottles, medicine bottles of other remedies, each recommending themself as the cure."--British Museum online catalogue and Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. A bottle says: "I think the poor goose requires a little of Godfrey's cordial", another bottle says: "a bottle of balm of Gilead would revive him." A water pump is suggesting: "I should recommend him to sleep in wet sheets & drink three gallons of pump water daily" a pill says: "let him have a dozen boxes of Blairs gout pills, & put his drumsticks in hot water." A bottle of ointment says: "His case is exactly like the Earl of Aldborough's so nothing can cure him but Holloway's ointment & pills", an old man says: "Parrs life pills I see are the only things that can save him." Another bottle of pills replies: "Life pills! Vegetable pills you mean, let him be well stuffed with Morison's no.1 & 2." A minute man on top of a book entitled "homeopathy" says: "it's cholera clearly and I should prescribe a little unripe fruit - the millonth part of a green gooseberry."
- Description:
- Title from item., Illustration to: The comic almanack for 1847. London : Imprinted for David Bogue ..., [1847]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consultations -- Proprietary Remedies -- Godfrey's Cordial -- Balm of Gilead -- Blair's Gout Pills -- Holloway's Ointment -- Holloway's Pills -- Paris Life Pills -- Morison's Pills.
- Publisher:
- David Bogue
- Subject (Name):
- Morison, James, 1770-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alternative medicine, Human behavior, Animal models, Physicians, Patients, Hydrotherapy, Geese, Animals in human situations, Patent medicines, and Bottles
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The sick goose and the Council of Health [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Aug. 1st, 1809.
- Call Number:
- Print00854
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Christ sits on the right in the company of his disciples, gesturing to a hospital in the distance; two figures are being carried towards the door on stretchers
- Alternative Title:
- Headpiece for the London Infirmary
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: Nichols, J. The genuine works of William Hogarth. London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row, 1808-17, v. 2, page 303., Copy of an engraving after Hogarth from the 1740s; see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 227., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Bible.
- Publisher:
- Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ,, London Infirmary (Whitechapel, London, England), and London Hospital (Whitechapel, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Hospitals and Biblical events
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Ticket of the London Hospital [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1790 and 1835]
- Call Number:
- Print20076
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 2]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1814]
- Call Number:
- Print00240
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Death (left) poises his javelin, about to strike an old man in bed, reading a book by the light of a candle held in his left hand. The room is heaped with his treasures (armour, &c.). Rats scamper, chased by a cat."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue; the assigned title for each plate from The English dance of death is the heading to the opposite printed page., Early (proof?) state, before aquatint added. For a later state, see no. 12412 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Publisher and date of publication from imprint on later state: London, Pub. 1 April 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with possible loss of text below image., Later state issued in: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 320., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death., and Ink verse notation on verso, perhaps in Rowlandson's hand; additional pencil notation on verso.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Combe, William, 1742-1823.
- Subject (Topic):
- Death (Personification), Wills, Skeletons, Spears, Beds, Sleeping, Cats, Rats, Armor, Musical instruments, Books, Candles, Artists' materials, Urns, and Sculpture
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The antiquary's last will and testament] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1816]
- Call Number:
- Print00227
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The corner of a house seen from a walled garden. Death throws down a ladder which gave access to a window from which a distraught girl looks out; her lover, a young lieutenant, falls from it towards a pond, while an elderly colonel, the father, fires a blunderbuss towards cats on the wall, the charge being intercepted by the falling man. A prancing dog barks."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: The assailant does not feel a wound; but yet he dies, for he is drown'd., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 241., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Jany. 1 - 1816, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Combe, William, 1742-1823.
- Subject (Topic):
- Death (Personification), Accidents, Courtship, Military officers, British, Gardens, Garden walls, Skeletons, Ladders, Falling, Firearms, Dogs, Cats, and Lakes & ponds
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The gallant's downfall] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 October 1815]
- Call Number:
- Print00226
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A runaway horse dashes over a bank towards the sea. The driver, a stout 'cit', falls backwards, broken reins in his hands. A young woman flings herself out. Death sits beside the road on a mile-stone, '56 Miles from London', holding up his hour-glass at the pair. (In the text the accident is on Shooters Hill.)"--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Away they go in chaise & one, or to undo or be undone
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: Away they go in chaise & one, or to undo or be undone., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 158., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Octr. 1 - 1815, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Combe, William, 1742-1823.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance of death, Death (Personification), Accidents, Skeletons, Carriages & coaches, Horses, Dogs, Traffic signs & signals, and Hourglasses
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The gig] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1814]
- Call Number:
- Print00225
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A pretty young wife sits beside an aged doting and rich husband, reading to him. He delightedly contemplates his glass, which is being filled by Death, who leans over a screen. The girl's left hand is held by a young officer who leans through the window (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Honeymoon and When the old fool has drank his wine and gone to rest, I will be thine
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: When the old fool has drank his wine / and gone to rest, I will be thine., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 1, opposite page 106., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life -- Skeleton as Death.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Augt. 1, 1814, by R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Combe, William, 1742-1823.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance of death, Death (Personification), Marriage, Skeletons, Courtship, Adultery, Military officers, British, Eating & drinking, Alcoholic beverages, Windows, Interiors, Stringed instruments, Books, Dogs, Fireplaces, and Screens
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The honey moon] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1814]
- Call Number:
- Print00237
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An apothecary's shop, the walls covered by jars closely ranged on shelves, a stuffed fish hanging from the ceiling. Behind a curtain (right) Death, wearing an apron, pounds at a mortar of 'slow Poison', looking gleefully in a mirror to watch the customers. The fat quack compounds medicines at the counter. A grotesque crowd of agonized patients enters through a doorway (left) inscribed 'Apothecaries Hall'. Two sit in arm-chairs. The jars are 'Canthar[ides]', 'Arsnic', 'Opium', 'Nitre', 'Vitriol', 'Elixir', with (right) 'Restorativ Drops'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- I have a secret art to cure each malady, which men endure
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: I have a secret art to cure / each malady, which men endure., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 1, opposite page 85., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death -- Pharmacy, interior -- Apothecaries.
- Publisher:
- Pub. July 1- 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Combe, William, 1742-1823.
- Subject (Topic):
- Death (Personification), Quacks and quackery, Skeletons, Interiors, Drugstores, Pharmacists, Mortars & pestles, Sick persons, Medicines, Shelving, Containers, and Mirrors
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The quack doctor] [graphic].