Doublures of character, or, Strikeing resemblances in phisiognomy, Strikeing resemblances in phisiognomy, and Striking resemblances in physiognomy
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from John Miller's entry in London Publishers and Printers, by Philip A.H. Brown (London, British Library, 1982)., Plate from: The caricatures of Gillray. London : John Miller, [between 1824 and 1827], opposite page 82., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Text following title: "If you would know mens [sic] hearts, look in their faces." Lavater., Reduced copy of a print with the same title etched by Gillray and published by John Wright in 1798 as an illustration to the Anti Jacobin review, v.1., Subject of each double portrait is identified with a Roman numeral followed by a description below title., Seven columns of text below title: I. The patron of liberty. Doublúre, the arch fiend. ..., Cf. Gillray, J. Fashionable Contrasts, 28., Cf. Satirical etchings of James Gillray, 59., Temporary local subject temrs: Satan -- Judas -- Silenus (Greek deity) -- Devil -- Highwaymen: Sixteen-String Jack -- Baboons - Jockeys., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British., and 1 print : soft ground etching and stipple ; plate mark 21.6 x 28.6 cm.
Publisher:
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, and Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
Copy of Hogarth's print; interior of a chapel with an impassioned preacher inspiring his listeners who include a woman swooning on the floor and a young couple embracing; many of the congregation are clutching figures of Christ; a barking dog with a collar labelled "Whitfield" echoes the preacher
Description:
Title etched below image., State from British Museum catalogue., Lettered above the image with text beginning: Hogarth's first thought for the medley. Copied from a very curious print designed and engraved by Hogarth, of which there are only two impressions, both of them in the possession of John Ireland. March 15th 1796. [Image of hand with pointing finger]. After taking the above impressions, Hogarth changed the point of his satire from the superstitious absurdities of popery and ridiculous personification delineated by ancient painters, to the popular credulities of his own day, erased or essentially altered every figure except two, and on the same piece of copper engraved the plate now in the possession of Messrs. Boydell, entitled Credulity, superstition & fanaticism, a medley., Dedication etched below title: Humbly dedicated to his Grace the Arch Bishop of Canterbury, by his Graces most obedient humble servant Wm. Hogarth., Text following dedication: Advertisement. The intention of this print, is to give a lineal representation, of the strange effects of literal and low conceptions of sacred beings, as also of the idolatrous tendency of pictures in churches, and prints in religious books, &c., Legend following advertisement: A. After Raphael Urbino. B. After Rubens. C. After Rembrant. D.E.F.G.H. Are imitations of several other painters., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2425., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 210., and 1 print : etching ; plate mark 481 x 380 mm.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 12th, 1795 by John Ireland (Author of Hogarth illustrated) No. 3 Poets Corner, Palace Yard, & for Messrs. Boydell, Cheapside & Shakespeare Gallery Pallmall
Subject (Name):
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763, Villiers, George, 1690-1748., and Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
Subject (Topic):
Christianity, Superstition, Demonology, Demons, Ghosts, Witches, Sleeping, and Supervisors
"The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is a crucible; various retorts, alembics, and other paraphernalia of the 'black arts,' are scattered about, as well as a formula for 'changing lead into gold'; although the alchemists at best could only contrive to accomplish the reverse transmutation. Suggestive prints are hung on the walls of this chamber of mystery, such as the portrait of the notorious 'Count Cagliostro, discoverer of the Philosopher's Stone,' and the figure of the spurious 'Bottle Conjurer.' A military officer, in the next apartment, is turning his opportunities to more practical advantage by embracing, with a certain display of ardour, a pretty maiden who is nothing loth, the daughter, it appears, of the philosophically minded investigator."--Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist
Alternative Title:
Searching for the philosophers stone
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed in image, lower left., Traces of burnished lettering in lower right corner of design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hoaxes: allusion to bottle conjurer -- Male costume -- Furniture: chest -- Philosopher's stone., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior., 1 print : aquatint with etching, hand-colored ; sheet 25.8 x 32.1 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from lower left. The title is also separated from the rest of the sheet, having been trimmed away and then mounted beneath the design.
Publisher:
Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
"John Bull as a Chinese, in Chinese costume, hugely corpulent sits full-face in an arm-chair, legs extended, hands resting on the sides of his paunch. He looks to three doctors on the left, the foremost being Grey, who leans towards him, pointing to his colleagues (left), and saying suavely, 'This deformity is quite inconsistent, believe me, with the Nature of your Constitution & therefore must be got rid of, I will undertake with your approbation, to remove it & my assistant Doctor Russell here will prepare you for the Operation'. Lord John Russell, on the extreme left, speaks confidentially to Althorp who is in back view: 'I once thought that a case of this description ought to be treated with great caution and even wrote as well as talked a great deal about it, but now I am quite of a different opinion I think there is nothing like cutting away thro' thick & thin!' J. B.: 'I ca'nt say that my bodily health was ever better, or that I ever felt stronger tho' to be sure I am not growing younger; but then every one is telling me how deformed I am grown of late & this tumour which I have had from my infancy is all a Mass of Corruption'. On the right and slightly farther from the picture-plane, the rival doctors, Peel and Wellington, are in consultation. The Duke: 'I say the Man has no defect in his Constitution & that what they call corruption is necessary to his existance--but now because he would not believe me, but choses rather to submit to the experiments of these rash operators --Wharnecliffe who is a sensible Man lays all the blame on me'. Peel: 'Yet I begin to think we could have done better, when we found him determined to think that his Constitution was impaired, to have tried--just in the way of soothing, a gentle alterative Course'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
John Bull and the doctors
Description:
Title from text below image., Print signed with the monogram "HB," which was used by John Doyle., Variant state lacking C. Motte's printer statement in lower right. Cf. No. 16666 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England.
Subject (Name):
Hoo Loo, 1799-1831., Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl, 1764-1845, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878, Spencer, John Charles Spencer, Earl, 1782-1845, and Wharncliffe, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, Baron, 1776-1845.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Tumors, Surgery, Politicians, and Obesity
Print shows three fashionable dandies in a well-furnished room. One (left) sings, seated, and with a leg resting on a second (lyre-backed) chair; he leans sentimentally, hand on heart, towards a lutanist reclining on a (Regency) sofa playing an ornate curiously shaped instrument. The third stands behind the sofa, playing a flageolet, and admiring himself in a mirror above the ornate fireplace. The vocalist holds an open music-book: 'Love has eyes.' On the floor beside him are two others: 'The Lovesick Swain set to Music' and 'Our Warbling Notes and Ivory lutes Shall ravish every ear.' Two whole length portraits flank the mirror, one of a lady in quasi-Elizabethan dress, the other of a man similarly dressed, both having pinched waists and full busts. Below one is a picture of 'Vacuna' [Goddess of rural leisure], a blowzy woman lying under a tree; below the other, a grotesque 'Narcissus' admires his reflection. On the end of the sofa sits a grotesquely clipped (and dandified) poodle suckling puppies
Alternative Title:
Dandy trio and Hummingbirds, or, A dandy trio
Description:
Title etched below image., After a design by amateur caricaturist John Sheringham; see British Museum catalogue., Later state, with G. Humphrey's original imprint replaced. For an earlier state, see no. 13446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., A reissue of a print originally published 15 July 1819 by G. Humphrey. This later state was included in Thomas McLean's 1835 collective reissue of several Cruikshank etchings entitled "Cruikshankiana : an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank ...", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, England., and London.
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Fashion, Clothing and dress, British, Interiors, Musicial instruments, Musicians, Music, Parlors, and Poodles
"Three men sit at a table absorbed in an oyster feast, while Richard Martin ..., sensing cruelty to oysters, enters, followed by a constable with his staff (left). Papers hang from his pocket: M . . . . s Bill to prevent Cruelty to Animals, and a book projects: Gullivers Travels--A Voyage to . . . Ho[uyhnhnms]. Martin points imperiously to the table, the constable makes a wry face. A lean elderly man ... sits with his back to the door on a piano-stool on which are sheets of music. At his feet is a paper: The Oyster crossed in Love as sung by Messs Sinclair & Gamon at Covent Garden O gentle Swain yr Knife [refrain] Nor Wound a Heart so soft as mine. Dr E----y, wearing tartan, stands over a tub of Natives, opening oysters. The third man's face is concealed. On the table, besides oyster-shells, &c, are a candle burnt low and a large jug of Hot Milk. The walls are covered with shelves. On one set (left), inscribed Larder of Death, are druggist's jars, &c. These include Opium, Oxalic Acid, Calomel, with a box of Gamboge. The other, inscribed Good Living, are laden with food: a pie, a chain of sausages, a sirloin, jar of Cherry Bounce, round of beef, a Scots Haggis, a hare, a bird. There is also (left) a high shelf of books."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different state or version
Description:
Title etched below image., Different state or version, with variations in the text below image, of a plate to No. VI of The family oracle of health, economy, medicine, and goodliving (London : Walker [etc.], 1824-1829). Cf. No. 14696 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Three of the figures are identified with etched text beneath lower border of image: [left to right] Martin; Dr. Kitchener; Dr. E-y., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 301., Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1265, 5259., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Eady.
Publisher:
Published by J. Walker
Subject (Name):
Martin, Richard, 1754-1834 and Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827
"Three men sit at a table absorbed in an oyster feast, while Richard Martin (M----n), sensing cruelty to oysters, enters, followed by a constable with his staff (left). Papers hang from his pocket: M . . . . s Bill to prevent Cruelty to Animals, and a book projects: Gullivers Travels--A Voyage to . . . Ho[uyhnhnms]. Martin points imperiously to the table, the constable makes a wry face. A lean elderly man (Dr K----r) sits with his back to the door on a piano-stool on which are sheets of music. At his feet is a paper: The Oyster crossed in Love as sung by Messs Sinclair & Gamon at Covent Garden O gentle Swain yr Knife [refrain] Nor Wound a Heart so soft as mine. Dr E----y, wearing tartan, stands over a tub of Natives, opening oysters. The third man's face is concealed. On the table, besides oyster-shells, &c, are a candle burnt low and a large jug of Hot Milk. The walls are covered with shelves. On one set (left), inscribed Larder of Death, are druggist's jars, &c. These include Opium, Oxalic Acid, Calomel, with a box of Gamboge. The other, inscribed Good Living, are laden with food: a pie, a chain of sausages, a sirloin, jar of Cherry Bounce, round of beef, a Scots Haggis, a hare, a bird. There is also (left) a high shelf of books."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate to No. VI of: The family oracle of health, economy, medicine, and goodliving. London : Walker [etc.], 1824-1829., Three of the figures are identified with etched text beneath lower border of image: [left to right] M-n; Dr. K-n; Dr. E-y., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Eady., and 1 print : etching and aquatint ; image and inscription 12.5 x 19.2 cm.
Publisher:
Published by J. Walker
Subject (Name):
Martin, Richard, 1754-1834 and Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827
"Three men sit at a table absorbed in an oyster feast, while Richard Martin (M----n), sensing cruelty to oysters, enters, followed by a constable with his staff (left). Papers hang from his pocket: M . . . . s Bill to prevent Cruelty to Animals, and a book projects: Gullivers Travels--A Voyage to . . . Ho[uyhnhnms]. Martin points imperiously to the table, the constable makes a wry face. A lean elderly man (Dr K----r) sits with his back to the door on a piano-stool on which are sheets of music. At his feet is a paper: The Oyster crossed in Love as sung by Messs Sinclair & Gamon at Covent Garden O gentle Swain yr Knife [refrain] Nor Wound a Heart so soft as mine. Dr E----y, wearing tartan, stands over a tub of Natives, opening oysters. The third man's face is concealed. On the table, besides oyster-shells, &c, are a candle burnt low and a large jug of Hot Milk. The walls are covered with shelves. On one set (left), inscribed Larder of Death, are druggist's jars, &c. These include Opium, Oxalic Acid, Calomel, with a box of Gamboge. The other, inscribed Good Living, are laden with food: a pie, a chain of sausages, a sirloin, jar of Cherry Bounce, round of beef, a Scots Haggis, a hare, a bird. There is also (left) a high shelf of books."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate to No. VI of: The family oracle of health, economy, medicine, and goodliving. London : Walker [etc.], 1824-1829., Three of the figures are identified with etched text beneath lower border of image: [left to right] M-n; Dr. K-n; Dr. E-y., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Eady.
Publisher:
Published by J. Walker
Subject (Name):
Martin, Richard, 1754-1834 and Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827
"A quack doctor (right) stands outside his house surrounded by a pyramid of bottles inscribed 'Velnos Syrup', one of which he holds up, demonstrating its virtues with a complacent smile to a band of rival practitioners (left) who are furiously threatening his barricade. Behind his head is inscribed : 'List of Cures \ In 1788,5,000 \ In 1789, 10,000'. The house is at the corner of 'Frith Street'; it has a porch inscribed in large letters 'Mr Swainson N. 21'. A surgeon threatens Swainson with a knife, raising also a leg to kick. A second surgeon kneels on one knee, also holding a knife and glaring ferociously; beside him is a basket of surgeon's instruments. Behind him is a man who directs an enormous syringe at the self-satisfied Swainson. An old man wearing spectacles holds up a 'Pill Box'. These assailants are dominated by a very stout man in the rear who holds up a pestle in one hand, in the other a mortar inscribed 'Mercury the only Specific'. Above his head is poised a nude Mercury holding a caduceus and urging on the attacking force."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vegetable intrenchment and Vegetable entrenchment
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue and Grego., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Proprietary medicines -- Velnos Syrup.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 29, 1789, by W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Swainson, Isaac, 1746-1812
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Interpersonal confrontation, Physicians, Mercury, Patent medicines, Bottles, Sculpture, Medical equipment & supplies, and Mortars & pestles