- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 August 1797]
- Call Number:
- Print00035
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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)
- Subject (Topic):
- Fighting, Physicians, Barbers, Barber poles, Wigs, Surgical instruments, Staffs (Sticks), and Dogs
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The battle of the barbers and surgeons [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1796]
- Call Number:
- Print10269
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A series of eight violent quarrels arranged in two rows, the words (not transcribed in full) etched above the heads of the speakers. [1] An old parson threatens his footman: "If you ever dare to say I am in a passion again I'll break every bone in your skin." [2] A man and wife on the point of blows. [3] A man thrashing a dog. [4] A woman at a tea-table flinging the contents of a cup in the face of a maidservant. [5] A woman beating a prostrate man with a pair of tongs. [6] A man dragging on a boot so as to thrust his heel through it, the shoe-maker saying: "You are so hasty master you wont give the Goods fair play." [7] Two men facing each other in argument. [8] A black servant expostulates with his master for knocking down a boy who lies on the ground: "Dear Massa you have almost killed young Master." One of a set, see British Museum Satires No. 8541, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 2, pl. 3., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage and married life -- Cruelty to animals., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 320 x 349 mm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Imperfect? Numbering in upper right possibly trimmed or erased from sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackvill [sic] Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Anger, Aggression, Animal welfare, Marriage, Spouses, Fighting, Quarreling, Dogs, Staffs (Sticks), Clergy, Servants, Tea services, and Boys
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Triumphs of temper!! [graphic]