Title devised by curator., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England).
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Physicians, Gout, Gluttony, and Patients
Three doctors stand together in discussion, wearing wigs and tailcoats. The man on the right holds a wine glass; bottles and additional glasses sit on a table behind him. In the background on the left the patient can be seen, lying in a canopy bed
Description:
Title and date supplied by curator., Unsigned; attribution to Rowlandson from curator., This 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: John Crompton -- William Esdaile -- [*R. Willett].
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Discussion, Sick persons, and Canopy beds
A scene from Dante's 'Divine Comedy' showing Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, Count of Donoratico (c. 1220-1289), an Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander and his sons and grandchildren imprisoned in a dungeon. After Reynolds
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, from that of the original painting by Reynolds., Signed by the artist in lower left corner., and Drawn after Sir Joshua Reynolds’s painting, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1773 and is currently in the National Trust Collection at Knole, Kent (accession no.: 129934).
Subject (Geographic):
Italian.
Subject (Name):
Ugolino, della Gherardesca, conte di Donoratico, -1289,
Subject (Topic):
Capture & imprisonment, Dungeons, Political prisoners, and Children
Title devised by curator., Attributed to Thomas Rowlandson., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and William Combe, The English Dance of Death.
Subject (Topic):
Human skeleton, Death (Personification), Death in art, Murder, and Devil
Title devised by curator., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Human skeleton, Death in art, and Death (Personification).
Three playing cards, or transformation cards, drawn in pen and ink by an unidentified artist, showing caricatured figures using the shape of the pip, only hearts or diamonds (red watercolor) in this incomplete set. One of the cards (two hearts) features two gentlemen meeting. The other two cards (three of diamonds) feature a lady with a fan and two gentleman in one card; the other incomplete, has a lady with a fan and only one gentleman
Description:
In English., Title from dealer's description., and Cards appear to have been removed from an album; remains of paper and glue are present on verso of each card.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs
Four drawings, each depicting a different character with their face in the form of a heart: a man drinking; a man with a pipe; a violinist; and an elegant lady and Eleven drawings, each depicting a different character with their face in the form of a heart: a man playing a flute; a dour-looking cleryman; a coachman; a vendor wearing a turban; a man in a tricorne hat; an obese man in an armchair with medicine on a side table; a man smoking a pipe. Also two cards wtih older woman clutching a blanket around her shoulders; a pretty young women with a highly decorated hat with feathers and her hands in a muff; and, a female ballad sheet vendor
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., Each drawing is signed by the artist in lower left corner either initials or full name., One small pencil drawing of a coffee pot on the verso of the drawing of a dour-looking cleryman., Date based on a watermark on one of the sheets., and Elizabeth Dubuisson was a portrait painter whose work was displayed at the Royal Academy between 1805-40; she also drew "Character Sketches", a series of caricatures on the Mufflechop Family published by Pewtress and Ackermann approximately 1830. She produced additional drawings similar to these four, with ten being held by the Victoria and Albert Museum (accession no.: E.1091-1992).
An apothecary kneels at the feet of a pretty young woman, one hand on his breast, the other pointing to a cloth at his feet on which are spread a clyster-pipe, shears, pestle and mortar, a bottle, and a canister of "Love Pow[der?]". Behind them is a piano; in the background on the right is a slightly open door, around which an amused woman and man view the scene
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left., "VWN" within oval in lower right corner, probably a collector's stamp or mark, For a print after Rowlandson of similar design, see no. 11114 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., This 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: Apothecaries.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Courtship, Medical equipment & supplies, Mortars & pestles, Pianos, and Doors & doorways
Title devised by curator., In ink lower margin: Docr. Gall drawn by T. Rowlandson and given to his old friend Smith., Date of production based on artist's death date., Place of production based on artist's nationality., Ownership stamp in red ink, lower left: LSD., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; attribution to Rowlandson from curator., Date based on artist's death date., and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.