- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Novr. 26, 1769 [i.e. 1796?]
- Call Number:
- Print00031
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A stout man (left) wearing a robe and nightcap, on crutches with his gouty right foot bandaged and in a sling that wraps around his shoulders, complains to a thin man (right) wearing a coat and boots but with his legs bare. The man on the left says "Don't plague me now - I have got the gout", to which the other man replies "I give you joy my good friend, in these hard times it is very well you can get any thing!!!"
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Final two digits of year in imprint likely transposed in error; publisher S.W. Fores did not move to the 50 Piccadilly street address until the mid-1790s, according to the British Museum online catalogue. Krumbhaar lists 1789 as the year of publication., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Sling for a gouty foot., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.5 x 23.3 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Gout and Crutches
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Consolation in the gout! [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act directs March [the] 15th 1762.
- Call Number:
- Print20115
- Collection Title:
- Plate 83. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a chapel with an impassioned preacher inspiring his listeners; considerably altered from the earlier state known as "Enthusiasm Delineated", for instance, by the substitution of representations of the Cock Lane Ghost (a topical reference to a fraud of 1762) for the figures of Christ, the removal of the barking dog, and the introduction of rabbits emerging from the skirts of the woman swooning on the floor in allusion to Mary Toft, the Rabbit Woman of Godlaming"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Enthusiasm delineated
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State from Paulson. Reworking of Enthusiasm delineated., With caption: "Believe not every Spirit; but try the Spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the World. 1. John. Ch.4. V.1"., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 436 x 331 mm.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Name):
- Toft, Mary, 1703-1763, Villiers, George, 1690-1748., and Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
- Subject (Topic):
- Christianity, Superstition, Demonology, Demons, Ghosts, Rabbits, Witches, Sleeping, and Supervisors
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Credulity, superstition and fanaticism a medley / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 November 1795]
- Call Number:
- Print20116
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Enthusiasm delineated [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1789]
- Call Number:
- Print10018
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on medicine: to right, a man sits on a close stool holding a steaming glass vessel; behind him a doctor reads from a large volume propped against the lid of the stool; he wears a tall hat, large glasses and an ermine-trimmed robe which is held by a man with a moustache, hat, lace-trimmed collar and cloak who carries a sword; men in white pierrot costumes stand on either side behind the doctor each holding a large candle the smoke from which partly obscures the doctor's hat; at the end of the procession are three men in the same costumes carrying clysters on their shoulders; all are in profile to right and have large noses."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attribution to Isaac Cruikshank based on faint "I.C" signature in lower right corner of image., Copied from one of a set of satirical prints on medicine made by Desprez in Sweden in 1789; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1969,0719.2. For a different English copy of the same design, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2007,7058.4., "Dor. Bssi."--Lower left margin., "CAP: &"--Lower right margin., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters -- Water closets -- Dr. Bossey., and Contemporary annotation in ink below title: 'Tis only experiences that teaches proper remedies.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Candles
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Sola experientia vera medicamina docet [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 April 1786]
- Call Number:
- Print10035
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Doctor's last fee
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Medical Fees -- Unsuccessful treatment, 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text from lower margin., and Pasted to mounting sheet with ink and wash border.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd April 1st, 1786, by H. Brookes, Coventry Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Death, Sick persons, Physicians, Wages, Military uniforms, and British
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The dying patient, or, Doctor's last fee [graphic]