Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from street address., 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: Hospitals, Interior; Unsuccessful treatments
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned and undated., By an unidentified artist in the style of Hippolyte Lecomte., Date of production based on style of artwork., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and In ink "160".
Title from item., Date derived from printer's date of death., Place of publication derived from printer's known location., In margin upper right: No. 161., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from item., Date derived from printer's date of death., Place of publication derived from printer's known location., In margin upper right: No. 146., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned and undated., By an unidentified artist in the style of Hippolyte Lecomte., Date of production based on style of artwork., In ink "158"., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title and publisher from item., Date supplied by curator., Poster appears to have been published in the childrens' magazine Astrapi, and was designed to be held against a window to reveal where various internal organs are located., In right margin: Ref 05143 A 04/98., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Comité Français d'Éducation pour la Santé, 2, rue August Comte - B.P.51 92174 Vanves and [1998].
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Health education, Children, and Physicians
"A man with a prodigious stomach and projecting nose and mouth stands at left in profile, opposite an elderly woman whose profile is shaped to accommodate his, having a crescent face with projecting forehead and chin, her body bent back and curved in at the waist and stomach, with bent knees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
Alternative Title:
Docto Convex and Lady Concave and Doctor Convex and Lady Concave
Description:
Title etched below image; the three letters "n" are all etched backwards., Printmaker attribution and date of publication from a nearly identical print with the signature "Rowlandson inv." and the imprint "Pubd. Novr. 20, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand"; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.593. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 41., "Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter, is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?"--Text below title., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"From the bustle and life visible on all sides it would seem that the period is fair-time, when the rustics and agricultural population of the vicinity in general flock into the town, holiday-making. A travelling mountebank has established his theatre in the market place; the person of the ingenious charlatan is decked out in a fine court dress, with bag wig, powder, sword, and laced hat complete, the better to excite the respect of his audience; he is holding forth on the marvellous properties ascribed to the nostrums which he is seeking to palm off on the simple villagers as wonder-working elixirs; while his attendants, Merry Andrew and Jack Pudding, are going through their share of the performance. One branch of the mountebank physician's profession was the drawing of teeth; an unfortunate sufferer is submitting himself to the hands of the empiric's assistant. The rural audience is stolidly contemplating the antics of the party, without being particularly moved by Dr. Botherum's imposing eloquence, these vagabond scamps being frequently clever rogues, blessed with an inexhaustible fund of bewildering oratory, and witty repartee at glib command. Leaving the quack, we find plentiful and suggestive materials to employ the humourist's skilful graver scattered around. In the centre, a scene of jealousy is displayed; the beguilements of a portly butcher are prevailing against the assumed privileges of a slip-shod tailor, who is seemingly tempted to have recourse to his sheers, to cut the amorous entanglement summarily asunder. On the left, the promiscuous and greedy feeding associated with 'fairings,' is going busily forward, and on the opposite side are exhibited all the drolleries which can be got out of a Jew pedlar, his pack, the diversified actions of customers he is trying to tempt with his wares, and the bargains for finery into which the fair and softer sex are vainly trying to beguile the cunning Hebrew on their own accounts. It seems probable that Rowlandson in his print of Doctor Botherum may have had a certain Doctor Bossy in his eye, a German practitioner of considerable skill, who enjoyed a comfortable private practice, said to have been the last of the respectable charlatans who exhibited in the British metropolis. This benevolent empiric, as Angelo informs us, dispensed medicines and practised the healing art, publicly and gratuitously on a stage, his booth being erected weekly in the midst of Covent-Garden Market, where the mountebank, handsomely dressed and wearing a gold-laced cocked hat, arrived in his chariot with a liveried servant behind. According to the old custom, the itinerant quack-doctor, with his attendant gang, was as constant a visitor at every market-place as the pedlar with his pack."--Grego
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse below image, six on either side of title: High o'er the gaping crowd, on market day, while Andrew drolls the blockheads pence away ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mountebanks -- Tooth Extraction -- Dr. Bossey., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; sheet 373 x 433 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 6 March 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Teeth, Extraction, Jews, City & town life, Plazas, Medicine shows, Audiences, Crowds, Peddlers, and Butchers
Title from item., Date supplied by printer., Verse below image: You see Physician, vat a ninny,/ Me cure you gratish -- for de guinea., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat doctor is trundled down a hill in a wheelbarrow by a lean and amused countryman. His fat wife walks beside the barrow, holding his wig, hat, and stick, and angrily threatens him with her fist, while a dog runs in front. They have just left a thatched and gabled inn (left), with a sign, 'The Horns', and a placard over the door: 'Real Yorkshire Stingo Wines Cordials'. Jovial village notables sit outside the door, drinking and smoking; two, much amused, stand to watch the departure. A cock (left) with three hens squawks at the barrow."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image, Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. November 30th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 194., Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- Medical disease: gout -- Birds -- "Henpecked husband" -- Inns: 'The Horns' -- Signboards: 'The Horns,' 'Real Yorkshire Stingo Wines Cordials'., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 25.5 x 35.0 cm., and Series statement partially rubbed out.