"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
In pencil lower margin: William Sharp; The Hypochondriac., Date derived from artist's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hypochondria; Drugs.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Illness anxiety disorder, Medical consultation, Physicians, Medicines, Sick persons, Dogs, Blankets, and Anxiety
Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "Gentn: Harry" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dogs feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., State, publisher, and series title from Paulson., Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dissection -- Anatomical Theatres -- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -- Company of Surgeons -- Surgeon's Hall -- Freke, John (1688-1756)., 1 print : woodcut ; sheet 458 x 383 mm., and Printed on wove paper. Perhaps an impression published by Boydell after Mrs. Hogarth's death in 1789; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,2.171.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Criminals, Dogs, Dissections, Medical education, Rake's progress, Physicians, and Skeletons
Title supplied by curator., 20th century restrike, original block on 16th century paper., Attributed to Calcar., Title page from: Andreas Vesalius, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Basel: Oporinus, 1543., From the Workshop of Titian., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and See: Cushing, Harvey. A Bio-Bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, New York: Schuman's, 1943. VI-A-1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564,
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Human dissection, Medical education, Physicians, Dead persons, Audiences, Skeletons, Monkeys, and Dogs