Title etched below image., Rowlandson attribution and questionable date from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dental examination -- Corns -- Doctor's office, interiors., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 158 x 246 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Rural, Pain, Medical examinations, Dentistry, Interiors, Medical offices, and Physicians
Lieutenant Bowling pleading the cause of young Rory to his grandfather
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: Vide, Roderick Random, Vol. I, Chap. III., Illustration to Adventures of Roderick Random., "Plate 1st"--Lower left corner., Originally issued in 1792? See: Grego. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 308-310., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Disease -- Medical equipment -- Officer's uniform -- Furniture: armchair -- Furnishings: portraits -- Architectural details: door frame -- Literature: illustration to Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Medicine in Literature., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 270 x 344 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Smollett, T. 1721-1771. (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Wheelchairs, Military uniforms, Mirrors, and Interiors
"An obese, elderly man, completely bald, sits in an arm-chair while a shopman pours oil from a bottle (straw-covered like a Chianti flask) on to his scalp, pressing down his head with the left hand. At his feet is a basin to receive the overflow. On the ground is a tall 'Fools Cap', with ears. Behind them stands a woman with a shock of red hair standing on end; she looks in horror at its reflection in a wall-mirror (right). On the wall above her head is a placard: 'Wonderful Discovery Carrotty or Grey Whiskers Changed to Black Brown or Blue--' High on the wall are shelves where bottles of the oil are closely ranged, one inscribed 'Wig Oil One Guinea Pr Bottle'. Behind the shopman (left) stands a big Ali Baba jar. Across the wall is a large placard inscribed: 'Macassar Oil, for the Growth of Hair is the finest invention ever known for encreasing hair on bald Places, Its virtues are pre-eminent for improving and beautifying the Hair of Ladies and Gentlemen--This invaluable Oil recommended on the basis of truth and experience is sold at One Guinea Pr Bottle by all the Perfumers and Medicine Venders in the Kingdom'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "316" in upper right corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Proprietary medicines -- Macassar Oil -- Rowland's Oil.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 15th, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"An aged and moribund woman (three-quarter length) sits in an arm-chair directed to the left. A doctor, stout, middle-aged, and sensual, holds her wrist, while putting his arm round a buxom young woman who leans on the back of the chair. They gaze into each other's eyes. On the table at the old woman's elbow are medicine phials, a bowl of 'Composing Draught', and a pill-box inscribed 'Opium'. The doctor has a gold-headed cane inscribed 'Medical Staff'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Doctor Doubledose killing two birds with one stone
Description:
Title etched below image., "Price one shilling coloured.", and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 20, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"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
"A fat gouty invalid sits full face in a high-backed armchair beside his bedroom fire (left). He registers anguish as a young naval officer seizes his left hand, and tramples on his left. foot. An old nurse, followed by a man (right), pursue the officer into the room, much dismayed. A barking dog runs in front of them. Medicine bottles are ranged on the chimney-piece, a kettle stands on the fire, a high trivet with a dish is by the fender. At the invalid's right hand are a crutch and a round table with bowl and medicine bottle. A bird is in a cage."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
When in the gout - receiving the ruinous salutation of a muscular friend ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: When in the gout - receiving the ruinous salutation of a muscular friend (a sea captain) who, seizing your hand in the first transports of a sudden meeting, affectionately crumbles your chalky knuckles with the gripe of a grappling iron ..., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806. See no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of page number from upper right. Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum., "Page 270"--Upper right corner., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 112 x 170 mm., and Hand-colored.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
"PHYSICORUM: An old man's elongated head, wearing the old-fashioned wig of a doctor. To this is attached a garland of bunches of labelled medicine-bottles and pill-boxes. The 'Drafts are sleeping, purging, composing, emollient, opening, soporific, strength[ening]'. Below are clyster-pipe, syringe, decanter of 'Restorative Drops', and 'Priscription Puffs'. NUNINA: The head of a nun with up-cast eyes. Below are a crowned skull, hourglass, scourge, crucifix, rosary, and book. PUBLICORUM: The jovial drink-blotched head of a publican. To it are attached pipes, 'Tobacco Box', bottles of 'Rum', 'Brandy', and 'Rack'; a tankard; at the base is a punch-bowl filled with lemons."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Titles etched below images., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered 'No. 3' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Publicans -- Doctors' wig -- Medical instruments: clyster-pipe -- Syringe -- Medicine bottles -- Pill boxes -- Crowned skulls -- Rosaries -- Pipes -- Tankards -- Punch-bowls -- Spirits: brandy -- Rum -- Beverages: 'Rack.', Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Physicians caricatured., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 26.5 x 37.4 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint and plate number.
Publisher:
Pub. 15 Augt. 1800 by R. Ackermann at his Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Nuns, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Skulls, Hourglasses, Crucifixes, Pipes (Smoking), Tobacco products, Drinking vessels, and Alcoholic beverages
"A man supposed to be dead arising from his coffin and surprising his wife (?). The coffin is placed on trestles next to a four-poster bed (the deathbed of a rich man?). The lid of the coffin bears an elaborate brass plaque inscribed "Mr Gripe departed this life Ague" (last word indistinct). Arising from out of the coffin, Mr. Gripe disturbs the woman who was reading a large book (presumably a business ledger). On the ground, a soup bowl, a bottle and a glass, suggesting that she had poisoned him."--Wellcome Library online catalogue, no. 533361i (a later state).
Alternative Title:
Frighted nurse
Description:
Title from text below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in description of earlier state in Grego., Early state of the plate, before the change in title and before the addition of imprint and more extensive aquatint shading. For a later state with the title changed to "The dead alive!" and the imprint "London, Publish'd by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt., July 1795" added, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 390., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
A scene in a hunting lodge with tired hunters are relaxing on comfortable chairs and sofas, surrounded by their hunting dogs. A woman in a riding habit blows a French horn as one of the huntsman grasps her around the waist. On the wall are a hunting trophy (stag), a painting of a hunt in progress, and three rifles
Alternative Title:
Fox-hunters relaxing
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., A seemingly reversed version of the same design is given the title "Fox-hunters relaxing" by Grego. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 279, 281., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Alcoholic beverages, Courtship, Dogs, French horns, Hunting, Hunting dogs, Hunting trophies, Riding habits, and Rifles
"A fat man turns his back on a dinner-table, stamping and gesticulating in the throes of choking, his chair overturned. A man and a frantic woman rise from the table in alarm: a corner of the cloth is pulled through the button-hole of the former, and everything on the table cascades to the ground, including a tureen of soup. A third man registers alarm. A dishevelled servant (right) drops a glass of wine from his salver. On the wall is a large 'Plan of the Vicarage', showing the 'Great Tythes'. The room is a small one with a quasi-Gothic window with diamond panes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Symptons of choaking, Symptoms of choaking, and Symptoms of choking
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher from the British Museum online catalogue., One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Choking., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 137 x 186 mm.