Satire by Paul Sandby on Hogarth's 'Analysis of Beauty', with Hogarth in Bedlam, bizarrely attired in a long cloak and fantastic headdress with an ink bottle as a crown and straw around one leg. His palette hangs from his neck as he paints on the wall
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Description of content below image: He raves, his words are loose as heaps of sand ..., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Patients, psychiatric -- Hospitals, interior -- Patient restraints., 1 print : etching ; 246 (pa) x 179 (pl) mm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from top edge.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
"The interior of a poverty-stricken room. An old man (left) seated in a chair is rubbing one foot which rests on a low stool with the contents of a bottle held in his right hand. He wears a night-cap, his hat and wig hang on the back of his chair. A witch-like woman, wearing large spectacles, is seated by the fire, she holds on her lap the bare leg of a young man, and is about to apply to it the contents of a pot which she is stirring on the fire. He is yelling with pain. On the wall is a placard, "Dr Steers Opodeldoc for Chilblains." Poverty is indicated by the untidy bed, a broken casement window, and the character of the chimney-piece, on which is a lighted candle, a tea-pot, and a broken cup. Over it is a print of a man, three quarter length. Probably a quack chiropodist's establishment of a very humble kind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctor -- Medical: Chiropody -- Pin-point spectacles., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Kibe -- Chilblains., 1 print : etching, engraving, and stipple engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 189 x 161 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Podiatry, Foot, Diseases, Interiors, Poverty, Teapots, Fireplaces, Eyeglasses, Beds, Cats, and Pain