Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Death (Personification)., Staffs (Sticks)., Medicines, and Skeletons
Title etched above image., Place of publication supplied by curator., Date from copy in British Museum., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Subject (Name):
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763. and St. André, Nathanael, 1680-1776.
Subject (Topic):
Hoaxes, Obstetrics, Prenatal influences, Births, Pregnancy, Rabbits, and Physicians
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Text in English and Italian., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Subject (Topic):
Giants, Anomalies, Giants (Persons)., Human curiosities, Spears, and Clowns
Title etched below image., Place of publication derived from language of text., Trimmed sheet., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Subject (Name):
Shipton, Mother approximately 1488-1561, (Ursula),
Subject (Topic):
Women prophets, Prophecy, Women, and Drinking vessels
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed., This electronic 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: Hospitals, Great Britain; Dispensaries.
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Subject (Name):
Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospitals, Hospitals, Lakes & ponds, and Health care facilities
"Men with a plague-cart burying victims at night in a field, one to left using a long hooked pole to pull the corpses from the cart into a pit; in a neo-classical frame; illustration to Barnard's 'History of England'." -- from British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., Printmaker and place of publication derived from version in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Subject (Topic):
Plague, Mass burials, Dead persons, Night, Pipe smoking, Grave digging, Horses, and Carts & wagons
Title from item., Published: The Political Register. Vol. 2, June, 1768., In lower margin: The Blood & Vitals from her Wounds he drew, And Fed the Hounds that help'd him to pursue. Dryden., British Museum description: Satirical frontispiece to the Political Register, June 1768, showing Britannia stabbed by Lord Bute, her blood caught in bowls held by Lords Weymouth and Barrington; behind on the right, Lord Mansfield hands a bowl of blood to Lord Chatham who is seated his gouty leg on a stool and holding a crutch; on the steps in front of them, Lord Talbot drinks greedily from another bowl, a spit hanging by his side instead of a sword identifies him Lord Steward of the Household; behind on the left, Fletcher Norton, in legal robes, stands drinking from another bowl, an unidentified man leans forward to look at Britannia as she falls back, and another lawyer stands behind drinking from yet another bowl., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793., Talbot, William Talbot, Earl of, 1710-1782., and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789.
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Politicians, Blood, Crutches, Bowls (Tableware)., and Homicides
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Inscription after title: The wonderful and surprising English dwarf 3 foot 6 inches high, born in Persia, is fifty six years old, speaks eighteen languages sings Italian, dances to admiration and with the ropes ty'd to his hair when put over his shoulders lifts the great stone A., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Subject (Topic):
Dwarfs (Persons)., Ropes, Bodybuilders, Human curiosities, and Dwarfs
Title, place of publication, and date supplied by curator., Figures depicted are labeled: Giovani Baptista Belzoni; Ann Siggs; Patrick O'Brien; George Romondo; Mr. Daniel Lambert., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Subject (Name):
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778-1823,, Cotter, Patrick, 1759 or 1760-1806,, Lambert, Daniel, 1770-1809,, Romondo, George, 1765-after 1804,, Siggs, Ann,, and O'Brien, Patrick, 1760-1806,
Subject (Topic):
Abnormalities, Human, Human curiosities, Giants (Persons)., Dwarfs, Bodybuilders, and Obesity