- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 November 1814]
- Call Number:
- Print10267
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A bedroom scene. Joanna Southcott sits in an arm-chair, attended by three women and four doctors. Between her legs is a large tub inscribed 'Living Water', into which water gushes from a tap projecting from under her petticoats. She leans back with extended arms, exclaiming: "Shiloh! let not this groupe dismay thee | Come forth into the World I pray thee!" One doctor, Reece, superintends the flow of water, kneeling in profile to the left on a large volume: '[R]eec's Medical Guide'. In his pocket is a paper: 'Account of Wonderful Pregnancies'. Behind him a second doctor sniffs at a tumbler of water, saying, "This is a very pretty rig! | Nothing but water d .... n my Wig!" Two others talk together on the right, one peers through a microscope into a goblet; the other asks: "What do you see in the water, Doctor!" He answers: "Bubbles Doctr "the earth hath bubbles, as the water hath ['Macbeth' I. iii]". I said it was all my eye." Behind him, on the chimney-piece, are a medicine-bottle and the bust of a lank-haired man wearing clerical bands. Three women stand behind Joanna's chair and in front of the curtains of a bed. One (left) holds out a lace cap, saying, "Doctor here is Shiloh's cap! bless me! why he has got a watery head! The next says: "Pray Doctr take care of the cawl if there is one." The third, offering a steaming bowl, says: "Come my blessed Lady sip some of this heavenly caudle I have made you." In the foreground (left), Tozer, dressed as an artisan, sits on a three-legged stool, corking up bottles of water. He is identified by a paper hanging from his pocket: 'Tozer Preacher to the Virgin Johanna'. In front of him are a basket of corks and a paper: 'Sermon on the Birth of Shiloh', Corked bottles are on the left, uncorked ones on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to on right edge., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 8 (November 1814), before page 321., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anecdotes -- Religious mania.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1814, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
- Subject (Name):
- Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828
- Subject (Topic):
- Childbirth, Obstetrics, Pregnancy, Prophecy, Interiors, Bedrooms, Physicians, Bottles, Microscopes, Wash tubs, and Stools
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Delivering a prophetess [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1813]
- Call Number:
- Print00739
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bedroom scene: an invalid in a dressing-gown sits smiling in an arm-chair, while a fat yawning doctor, 'Quiet', puts a night-cap on his head. On the right 'Merryman', dressed as a zany or clown, with a gridiron painted on the back of his striped tunic, kicks Death towards the door (right), and presses his cap like an extinguisher against its grinning skull; he says: "Be Off! Be Off! you have no chance where Diet Merryman and Quiet practice!" Death answers: "Then my first job must be to quiet you and your partners will soon follow." Quiet: "Come now for a little quiet; Merrymans dose has opperated suficiently!" The patient holds a 'merrythought'. A fat cook, 'Diet', stands on the left inspecting a dish of bare chicken bones; he says, grinning broadly: "He'll do! Pick'd the bones clean! We shall beat the Charlotte Street Medical Board hollow!" A dinner-table, with an empty plate, a decanter of 'Madiera' and a loaf, is on the left, and behind it a large canopied bed. The chimneypiece (right), is covered with medicine-bottles. The floor is boarded. On it lie two piles of 'Carricatures', evidently the 'Caricature Magazine', on which the imprint is inscribed. There are also books lettered 'Jests'. A puff for Tegg's Magazine, cf. British Museum Satires No. 11976."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Numbered "380" in upper right corner of design., Temporary local subject terms: Bed curtains -- Doctors., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Diet -- Dr. Merryman -- Dr. Quiet -- *Charlotte Street Medical Board -- Skeleton as Death -- Diet., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 245 x 346 mm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Death (Personification), Bedrooms, Physicians, Skeletons, Clowns, Draperies, Canopy beds, Cooks, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Fireplaces, and Bottles
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The three best physicians, Dr. Diet, Dr. Merryman and Dr. Quit a hint to hippocondriacks. [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1813]
- Call Number:
- 813.00.00.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bedroom scene: an invalid in a dressing-gown sits smiling in an arm-chair, while a fat yawning doctor, 'Quiet', puts a night-cap on his head. On the right 'Merryman', dressed as a zany or clown, with a gridiron painted on the back of his striped tunic, kicks Death towards the door (right), and presses his cap like an extinguisher against its grinning skull; he says: "Be Off! Be Off! you have no chance where Diet Merryman and Quiet practice!" Death answers: "Then my first job must be to quiet you and your partners will soon follow." Quiet: "Come now for a little quiet; Merrymans dose has opperated suficiently!" The patient holds a 'merrythought'. A fat cook, 'Diet', stands on the left inspecting a dish of bare chicken bones; he says, grinning broadly: "He'll do! Pick'd the bones clean! We shall beat the Charlotte Street Medical Board hollow!" A dinner-table, with an empty plate, a decanter of 'Madiera' and a loaf, is on the left, and behind it a large canopied bed. The chimneypiece (right), is covered with medicine-bottles. The floor is boarded. On it lie two piles of 'Carricatures', evidently the 'Caricature Magazine', on which the imprint is inscribed. There are also books lettered 'Jests'. A puff for Tegg's Magazine, cf. British Museum Satires No. 11976."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Numbered "380" in upper right corner of design., Temporary local subject terms: Bed curtains -- Doctors., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Diet -- Dr. Merryman -- Dr. Quiet -- *Charlotte Street Medical Board -- Skeleton as Death -- Diet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Death (Personification), Bedrooms, Physicians, Skeletons, Clowns, Draperies, Canopy beds, Cooks, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Fireplaces, and Bottles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The three best physicians, Dr. Diet, Dr. Merryman and Dr. Quit a hint to hippocondriacks. [graphic]