"A fat 'cit', wearing a short brown wig, sits almost full-face between fire (left) and round table (right) on which are decanter, steaming glass, and smoking pipe. His face is contorted by a violent sneeze; in his left hand is his snuff-box, his right holds a pinch of snuff near his face. On his knee is a paper headed Parliamentary Debates. His dog looks up from between his feet, startled and annoyed. On the chimneypiece, the right part of which is visible, are a bust of Morpheus, a large shell, a squatting and obese Chinese nudity. An oval bust portrait is on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pinch of cephalic
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.7 x 20.3 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 25th, 1822, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Topic):
Tobacco, Sneezing, Snuff, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Fireplaces, and Dogs
"A crowded interior. An old maid, grotesquely lean, spectacled, and hideous, sits in an arm-chair beside her fire (left) on which a concoction in a saucepan boils over, surrounded by fierce flames. This she stirs with a spoon but turns to the right to pore over the recipe, which is in her left hand. One bare foot with deformed toes rests on a stool beside which are a spike-toed high-heeled shoe and a stocking. A table beside her and the floor below it are crowded with bottles, jars, and medicaments, with a pestle and mortar and a lighted candle. The candle sets fire to her cap, and the flame reaches a little bird-cage hanging from the ceiling. A cat walks under her petticoats; a tiny lap-dog lies in a cushioned band-box lid at her feet. A second cat claws towards a mouse which runs up the pole of a perch on which stands, a draggled and angry cockatoo. A pug-dog also looks up at the bird. Against the wall is a stuffed cat in a glass case; above it is a burlesque picture of Susanna and the Elders. A neat curtained bed is on the right. The chimney-piece is decorated with Diana (burlesqued) urging on the hounds to seize Actæon. On it are three peacock's feathers, bottles, spills, a shell, a Chinese mandarin, &c. The fireplace is lined with pictorial Dutch tiles."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor titled diagonally., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of a print first published as the heading to a broadside entitled "Recipe for corns". For an earlier state published 4 December 1822 by G. Humphrey, see no. 14443 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Corns.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
House furnishings, Costume, Medicine bottles, Pets, Painting, Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, and Single women
A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. As well as being cluttered with potions, the room contains an assortment of squabbling pets; on the wall hangs a painting depicting the attempted seduction of Susanna by the elders. The lettering below image, a recipe in verse, begins: "Take tacamahacca, an ounce & a half, a pound of good suet, from the skin of a calf, 3 barbicued apples, a ha'p'orth of pears, 3 dragon flies pounded, the ear wax of bears, a small peice of cheese, a little gum copal, some putrified salt with some essence of opal ..."
Description:
Title etched below image, as the heading to the recipe in verse., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor titled diagonally., For a later state lacking the recipe below image and with the new title "Mixing a recipe for corns", see no. 14443 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., "January 12th, 1467. Copied from the Black Letter"--Beneath recipe in verse., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Corns.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
House furnishings, Costume, Medicine bottles, Pets, Painting, Panaceas, Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, and Single women
Print shows a hideous old maid standing at right before her chair, supported on a crutched stick, as she addresses a comic doctor at left, who faces her, much disconcerted, with his gold-headed cane pressed to his chin. Her dress is antiquated, with high-heeled shoes; one foot is swollen with "Gout", the other with "Chilblains", and is also distorted with "Corns". Her person and costume are covered with the names of diseases in appropriate places: "Lightness" (on a feather nodding from her head), "Head Ache", "Stupor", "Dizziness", "Palsy", "Ague", "Sore Throat", "St Vit. Dance", "Asthma", . etc. Medicine bottles on a table beside her are labelled "Miss Grunt" and "T- Grunt". A little dog, shaved in the French manner, barks at the doctor. The room is a comfortably furnished parlour, with an iron balcony outside a window reaching to the floor, with a background of trees
Alternative Title:
Walking hospital
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two columns of etched verse beneath title: Im loaded with ev'ry disease, it is true ... You're welcome to all, Sweet Miss's adieu!, and Plate numbered "525" in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 24, 1813, by Jas. Whittle, & Richd. H. Laurie, Fleet Street, London
"The dentist, short, fat, and bald, stands in back view on a low stool, his knees pressed against the chair, his left arm round the victim's neck; he tugs at an upper tooth. The thin elderly patient raises her left leg in agony, overturning the folding wash-stand on which the dentist's appliances are spread. These include a basin, cup (both spilling their contents), a double set of teeth, a hammer, and a stoppered jar which falls against a large pier-glass, starring it. Both are unaware of the accident, though a little dog barks from under the table. The glass reflects dentist and patient, showing the latter gripping the arm of the chair. There is a window (right), the lower part screened by a slatted green shade. Above this dangle teeth with large blood-stained roots. On a chest of drawers-bookcase are laid out sets of false teeth. The books are Warbler; Winter in London; Lock on the Gums; Miseries of Human Life [Beresford, see See British Museum catalogue No. 10815, &c]; Bible; Tales of the Devil; Tommy Two Shoes; Treatise on Tooth Powder & Brushes; Feast of Wit; Tales of Terror, and two big volumes of Frankensteiv [sic] [Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published 1818]. The room is carpeted to the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tugging at a high tooth
Description:
Title etched below image., The word "high" in title remains visible but was scored through and replaced with "eye"., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dentists -- Tooth extraction -- Dentures., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.0 x 34.3 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Topic):
Bookcases, Dental offices, Dentistry, Dogs, Mirrors, Pain, and Reflections