"A naked, bald, and grotesquely obese man stands on the tips of his toes about to plunge, or rather topple, into a bath, in which he admires, Narcissus-like, his own absurd reflection. He is poised on a platform projecting over the bath; behind him stands a comely young woman, watching in astonishment. A flesh-brush is beside her, another is on a seat on the opposite side of the bath, where a print of Narcissus is on the wall. An ugly old woman's head looks through a small rectangular aperture up m the wail; she is much amused at the scene. On the wall is a placard: 'Glowcocks Bagnio Cold and Hot Baths Cupping Sweating and otherwise cleansing the body performed here Lodgings for Gentlemen.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed with plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 6, 1803, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Narcissus (Greek mythological character),
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Public baths, Obesity, Therapeutic baths, Bathing, Nudes, and Signs (Notices)
"Satire: frightened doctor surrounded by ghoulish figures with medical implements, saws and medicines, one bleeding him, another offering a pill; with verse below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a reversed version of the same design
Description:
Title etched below image., A reversed version of this G.M. Woodward design, etched by Richard Newton and aquatinted by John Hassell, was published by William Holland on 11 November 1792. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2001,0520.23., Six lines of verse beneath title: Those spectres seam'd with scars that threaten there, the victims of my late ill conduct are; ... Garth's Dispensary, Canto VI., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Garth's Dispensary.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 30, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Phlebotomy, Medical equipment & supplies, and Saws
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The farmer, looking up, with folded hands, sits full face in an upright arm-chair. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap, and appears fairly robust. The lawyer stands at his right hand, eagerly bending forward to write 'The last Will and Testament of, . .'; behind him (left) is the elder son, a gaping shock-headed youth in a smock. Behind the right arm of the chair is the doctor, sucking his cane disconsolately. On his left hand are the parson, with a grog-blossom nose, holding an open book, the weeping wife, plainly dressed in cap and apron, with a little girl holding a handkerchief to her face, and a smaller boy, yelling. The farmer says: "I bequeath my House and Lands to my eldest Son Dick- the rest of my property to my Wife and younger Children. I leave Six and eightpence to the Lawyer- all his gallipots and phials to the Doctor and half a years tithes to the Parson- Therefore March off Doctor! Write Lawyer! Pray parson cry Wife! and bellow Children! For it is all over with me"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "299" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "One shilling colour'd.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.0 x 34.5 cm.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Napoleon's defeat, abdication and retirement to Elba. in a makeshift-looking room, a huge, hairy devil approaches Napoleon at right, holding a trident and proffering a noose, saying, 'Master Boney the favour of your company is requested -'; Napoleon, at left, hurriedly rising from his 'Camp stool' and pulling on his breeches, replies, 'I'll be with you in a crack'; a skeleton looms up behind him, at the same time holding back Joseph Bonaparte who tries to escape through an open door at left, his crown falling off, the skeleton apprehending him, 'Stop thief'. By the side of Napoleon's throne-like stool, a stoppered bottle labelled 'Composing draught', a glass and a crown, at his feet his hat and sword; on a table beside the devil are other suggested measures for suicide: pistols, a dagger, a smaller demon holding out a cup labelled 'Genuine Jaffa poison', a dish of 'Opium', an axe, a paper lettered 'Perhaps you would prefer drowning'; underneath the table are trunks lettered 'Military chest / Hospital chest / Diamonds'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Plate numbered "327" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Weapons: Pistols -- Hatchet -- Genuine Jaffa poisons -- Composing draught -- Hanging -- Furniture: Glass decanters -- Wine glasses -- Campstools., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Jaffa., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 234 x 333 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 16th, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844
"A doctor (left), grotesquely obese, stands in profile regarding with a satisfied smile his dead or dying patient, who leans back in an arm-chair with closed eyes. The patient, old and emaciated, wears night-cap and dressing-gown over breeches and stockings. Behind him are the curtains of his bed (right). At his side is a round table with a bowl, medicine-bottle, and a paper: 'Prescriptions, Bolus, Blisters'. On the ledge of a casement window is a close array of medicine-bottles. The doctor says: "My Dear Sir you look this Morning the Picture of health I have no doubt at my next visit I shall find you intirely cured of all your earthly infirmitys." He wears old-fashioned dress, with tricorne hat and gold-headed cane. A fat woman stands in the doorway (left), her hands clasped."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with year of publication in imprint scratched out and with new plate number "291" etched in upper right. For an earlier state with imprint intact (the year "1809" not obscured) and with the variant plate number "95" etched in upper left, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10. For a later reissue with beginning of imprint removed from plate, see no. 12152 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Date of publication based on that assigned to the later state in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "291" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Medicine bottles -- Night cap., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Unsuccessful treatments., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 236 x 324 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 10 [year scratched out] by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"Lee Lewes stands on stage at Covent Garden, with busts arranged on a table behind him, he holds one up, turning to the crowd; the audience in the pit in the foreground, with four tiers of boxes behind; after Woodward."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Frontispiece to: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784., Lewes, Charles Lee, 1740-1803, and Covent Garden Theatre,
Subject (Topic):
Theaters, Actors, British, Interiors, Audiences, and Public speaking
"Long, dressed as a funeral mute or mourner, stands full-face, legs apart, carrying four large boards like a sandwich-man (then "board-man"). Only his draped hat and eyes appear above the central board. In his hand is a staff draped in black which is inscribed 'Killing No Murder' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 11371]. At his feet are many ducks, all angrily quacking: 'quack!!'; 'quack!!!'; or (one) 'cruel quack'. He says, quoting a nursery rhyme, 'Come, Dilly, Dilly, Dilly, come and be killed!!!' The principal board is headed 'To the Public', with the Royal Arms. Inscriptions: 'A Receipt of my Grandmothers | Decline Arrested | Consumption prevented | A Cure for all diseases | By The Simple | process of | Skinning Alive | protected by the | NOBILITY | and a House-Full of | Ladies | of the first Distinction | Dr Needy, Harley-Street | NO QUACKERY'. On both flanking boards are a grinning skull and cross-bones inscribed 'momento [sic] mori'; on one (left) are wine-glasses, tankard, and bottle and 'A Short Life and a Merry one'; (right) 'N.B. . Short Accounts make LONG Friends'. Behind is a funeral procession with two coffins, preceded by a duck. This passes the railings of a London square. Behind are houses, on one of which is a hatchment, and a church-steeple on which prances a tiny devil flourishing a trident."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Oracle of Harley Street
Description:
Title etched below image., Second title etched above image: The Oracle of Harley Street., Signed at bottom of plate with the initials "J.D.R." followed by a depiction of an artist's palette., Possibly etched by 'Sharpshooter' (the pseduonym of John Phillips); see British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consumption -- Funerals -- Manslaughter -- Drugs.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Long, John St. John, 1798-1834
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Malpractice, Quacks, Signs (Notices), and Ducks
A scene in a crowded coffee house with a mad dog on a table and terrified customers scrambling for cover. On the wall, a broadside titled: For the brasiles the Cerberuse Capn. Popitner ... bruden ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mad dogs., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; 273 x 381 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides (top, right and left).
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1809, by Thos. Rowlandson, No 1. James Street, Adelphi, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Crowds, Dogs, Fear, Eating & drinking facilities, and Interiors
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lean and grotesquely ugly old parson, wearing cap and gown, sits in his college room with a pretty young woman on his knee. She puts an arm round his neck and warms a foot at a blazing fire, on which stands a large coffee-pot. Her (large) straw bonnet and gloves are on the ground. Through a high Gothic window (right) two other Fellows look in, much amused. Behind him and against his chair is a table covered with punch-bowl, lemons, a decanter, bottles of 'Gin', 'Rum', and 'Coniac', and a jar of 'Preserved Ginger', &c. On the floor beside it is a huge volume: 'Doomsday Book', with other books, one being 'Arratin' [Aretino], another (open) 'A Master of Arts / a Fellow Feeling for the human Race'. With these are spectacles, cork-screw, long pipe, tobacco-jar. On the high chimney-piece are a nymph disrobing, candlestick, medicine-bottles, jug, and a framed 'Oxford almanack'. Beside it hang a violin and bow. On the wall hang a chess-board and a bag, as in British Museum Satires No. 12161, with a notice: 'Term begins -- Term ends -- Long Vacation'. British Museum Satires No. 10811 by Rowlandson has the same title (from Mackenzie's novel)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. December 2nd, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside". Cf. No. 11783 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., "Price one shilling coloured.", Plate numbered "126" in upper right corner., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 216., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 349 x 247 mm., and Hand-colored.