"Three doctors, grinning with satisfaction, stand in conference in an apothecary's shop. One (left), very corpulent, his spectacles pushed up on his forehead, holds a bottle labelled 'The Draughts as before Mr Costive'. His vis-à-vis stands chapeau-bras, holding a cane. Both wear old-fashioned dress with tie-wigs. The third, standing behind and between them is more fashionably dressed. On the counter (right) is a pestle and mortar, pill-box, and medicine phials, one labelled going to rest. Behind it are shelves on which are glass jars of varying sizes containing coloured liquids."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "608" in lower left corner., No. 45 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Drugstores, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Physicians, and Wigs
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '285' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Four lines of text below title: Well Norse how was mine patient by dish time? -Much better Sir, the medicines had great effect ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: German Physicians -- Medicine Bottles -- Harlequins -- Medical Disease: Colitis.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1st, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's back, in the middle of the room, Fever, a furry monster with burning eyes, resembling an ape, stands full-face with outstretched arms. On the right the doctor sits in profile to the right at a small table, writing a prescription, holding up a medicine-bottle in his left hand. The room is well furnished and suggests wealth: a carved four-post bed is elaborately draped. On the high chimney-piece are 'chinoiseries' and medicine-bottles. Above it is an elaborately framed landscape."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Ague and fever
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of print published in 1788 by T. Rowlandson. Cf. No. 7448 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: The hypochondriac., One line of quoted text below image, etched on either side of title: "And feel by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes, "extremes by change more fierce. Milton., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 226-7., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Ague -- Demons & devils -- Prescription of drugs., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 41.2 x 56.9 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
On the left an emaciated patient sits in a commode chair next to a table filled with medicine bottles with labels reading: James's Powders, [La]udanum, Sweating Draught, Opening Draught, Emetic. Beneath are a cask labeled "Peruvian bark" and a jug labeled 'Garlic". From the right a group of nine physicians carry letters of thanks to their "friend" Influenza and converse about the benefits they have reaped from his visitation to the city
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out., 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: Purgatives; Unsuccessful treatments; Peruvian Bark; Angelica root & nitre; Infectious diseases.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
On the left an emaciated patient sits in a commode chair next to a table filled with medicine bottles with labels reading: James's Powders, [La]udanum, Sweating Draught, Opening Draught, Emetic. Beneath are a cask labeled "Peruvian bark" and a jug labeled 'Garlic". From the right a group of nine physicians carry letters of thanks to their "friend" Influenza and converse about the benefits they have reaped from his visitation to the city
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives; Unsuccessful treatments; Peruvian Bark; Angelica root & nitre; Infectious diseases., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Date and place of publication from item., Sheet trimmed., Original work created: 1789., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death., and Stamp verso.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1, 1803 by R. Pollard Spa Fields London
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification)., Physicians, Sick persons, Skeletons, and Medicines
An elderly doctor in an old-fashioned wig, holding his silver-headed cane to his nose, takes the pulse of a young woman seated on a sofa. Her eyes are averted to avoid his leering gaze. A bottle of "Blessed Medicine" protrudes from his left pocket
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Medicine bottles -- Female dress, 1772 -- Canes.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Young adults, Women, Medicines, Bottles, Staff (Sticks), and Wallpapers
Title etched below image., Later state, with beginning of imprint statement reworked to remove date. For an earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Septr. 10, 1799, by R. Akerman, Strand", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 799.09.10.02., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Series title and number etched above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- Medicine bottles -- Food: reference to beans & bacon., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 245 x 195 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by R. Akerman, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Drugs, Pulse, Diet, Physicians, Medicines, and Bottles
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- Medicine bottles -- Food: reference to beans & bacon., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 245 x 194 mm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 10, 1799, by R. Akerman, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Drugs, Pulse, Diet, Physicians, Medicines, and Bottles