V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Napoleon's defeat, abdication and retirement to Elba. in a makeshift-looking room, a huge, hairy devil approaches Napoleon at right, holding a trident and proffering a noose, saying, 'Master Boney the favour of your company is requested -'; Napoleon, at left, hurriedly rising from his 'Camp stool' and pulling on his breeches, replies, 'I'll be with you in a crack'; a skeleton looms up behind him, at the same time holding back Joseph Bonaparte who tries to escape through an open door at left, his crown falling off, the skeleton apprehending him, 'Stop thief'. By the side of Napoleon's throne-like stool, a stoppered bottle labelled 'Composing draught', a glass and a crown, at his feet his hat and sword; on a table beside the devil are other suggested measures for suicide: pistols, a dagger, a smaller demon holding out a cup labelled 'Genuine Jaffa poison', a dish of 'Opium', an axe, a paper lettered 'Perhaps you would prefer drowning'; underneath the table are trunks lettered 'Military chest / Hospital chest / Diamonds'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Plate numbered "327" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Weapons: Pistols -- Hatchet -- Genuine Jaffa poisons -- Composing draught -- Hanging -- Furniture: Glass decanters -- Wine glasses -- Campstools., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Jaffa., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 234 x 333 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 16th, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Joanna Southcott, a stout termagant, stands in back view directed slightly to the right, gathering up her petticoats to display her person to three doctors who gaze closely at her. She is grossly caricatured, with no resemblance to her portraits. She says, her head turned in profile to the right, and looking up with a triumphant smile: "Seeing is believing are you Now satisfied theres no [sic] Behold the Naked Truth most Learned Doctors." The doctors, who are crouching for closer inspection, say respectively: "It has a confounded strange appeara[nce]"; "I have my doubts"; "I cant help suspecting". Across her posteriors, defined by the pulling up of her petticoats, is engraved: 'Aged 64 Bladders of Blasphemy and Corruption Sealed up and Ready to Burst'. On the left is a large cradle of straw in which is seated a grotesque parson with horns projecting from his forehead; he holds a spoon and a bowl inscribed 'Caudle'; beside him is a paper: 'Cradle Hymns'. He leers cunningly. The cradle is inscribed 'Parson Towser' and 'Cradle for Joanna's Boar Pig'. A bird-like demon, grinning grotesquely, crouches on the head of the cradle. Against it lies a sack inscribed 'Donations Child Bed Linen for young Beelzebub'. Beside this lie a large coral and bells, pap-spoon, syringes, a little saucepan, &c. (presents from the faithful). Beside Johanna (right) is a chest (as in British Museum Satires No. 12334) inscribed 'Joanna Southcot's Prophecys' and 'Seals for Sale'. Other things beside it are a syringe inscribed 'infusion of Devils Dose', a paper inscribed 'Game of Humbug', a bowl of 'Cock Broth for Tom Tozer', and a decanter of 'Strong Water'. In the background, framed by large curtains, are a pulpit and a high latticed window, suggesting a chapel interior."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miracles will never cease
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 340., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately?, The doctors have been identified in the British Museum catalogue as Richard Reece and Dr. John Sims., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prophecy -- Anecdotes -- *Religious mania., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 320 x 257 mm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of numbering from upper right.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 8, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Sims, John, 1749-1831
Subject (Topic):
Obstetrics, Clergy, Cradles, Demons, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, Prophets, and Pregnancy
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Joanna Southcott, a stout termagant, stands in back view directed slightly to the right, gathering up her petticoats to display her person to three doctors who gaze closely at her. She is grossly caricatured, with no resemblance to her portraits. She says, her head turned in profile to the right, and looking up with a triumphant smile: "Seeing is believing are you Now satisfied theres no [sic] Behold the Naked Truth most Learned Doctors." The doctors, who are crouching for closer inspection, say respectively: "It has a confounded strange appeara[nce]"; "I have my doubts"; "I cant help suspecting". Across her posteriors, defined by the pulling up of her petticoats, is engraved: 'Aged 64 Bladders of Blasphemy and Corruption Sealed up and Ready to Burst'. On the left is a large cradle of straw in which is seated a grotesque parson with horns projecting from his forehead; he holds a spoon and a bowl inscribed 'Caudle'; beside him is a paper: 'Cradle Hymns'. He leers cunningly. The cradle is inscribed 'Parson Towser' and 'Cradle for Joanna's Boar Pig'. A bird-like demon, grinning grotesquely, crouches on the head of the cradle. Against it lies a sack inscribed 'Donations Child Bed Linen for young Beelzebub'. Beside this lie a large coral and bells, pap-spoon, syringes, a little saucepan, &c. (presents from the faithful). Beside Johanna (right) is a chest (as in British Museum Satires No. 12334) inscribed 'Joanna Southcot's Prophecys' and 'Seals for Sale'. Other things beside it are a syringe inscribed 'infusion of Devils Dose', a paper inscribed 'Game of Humbug', a bowl of 'Cock Broth for Tom Tozer', and a decanter of 'Strong Water'. In the background, framed by large curtains, are a pulpit and a high latticed window, suggesting a chapel interior."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miracles will never cease
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 340., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately?, The doctors have been identified in the British Museum catalogue as Richard Reece and Dr. John Sims., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prophecy -- Anecdotes -- *Religious mania., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 36.8 x 26.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Probably a later impression from a worn plate; numbering in upper right is lightly printed and barely visible.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 8, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Sims, John, 1749-1831
Subject (Topic):
Obstetrics, Clergy, Cradles, Demons, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, Prophets, and Pregnancy
"A bedroom scene. Joanna Southcott sits in an arm-chair, attended by three women and four doctors. Between her legs is a large tub inscribed 'Living Water', into which water gushes from a tap projecting from under her petticoats. She leans back with extended arms, exclaiming: "Shiloh! let not this groupe dismay thee | Come forth into the World I pray thee!" One doctor, Reece, superintends the flow of water, kneeling in profile to the left on a large volume: '[R]eec's Medical Guide'. In his pocket is a paper: 'Account of Wonderful Pregnancies'. Behind him a second doctor sniffs at a tumbler of water, saying, "This is a very pretty rig! | Nothing but water d .... n my Wig!" Two others talk together on the right, one peers through a microscope into a goblet; the other asks: "What do you see in the water, Doctor!" He answers: "Bubbles Doctr "the earth hath bubbles, as the water hath ['Macbeth' I. iii]". I said it was all my eye." Behind him, on the chimney-piece, are a medicine-bottle and the bust of a lank-haired man wearing clerical bands. Three women stand behind Joanna's chair and in front of the curtains of a bed. One (left) holds out a lace cap, saying, "Doctor here is Shiloh's cap! bless me! why he has got a watery head! The next says: "Pray Doctr take care of the cawl if there is one." The third, offering a steaming bowl, says: "Come my blessed Lady sip some of this heavenly caudle I have made you." In the foreground (left), Tozer, dressed as an artisan, sits on a three-legged stool, corking up bottles of water. He is identified by a paper hanging from his pocket: 'Tozer Preacher to the Virgin Johanna'. In front of him are a basket of corks and a paper: 'Sermon on the Birth of Shiloh', Corked bottles are on the left, uncorked ones on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to on right edge., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 8 (November 1814), before page 321., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anecdotes -- Religious mania.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1814, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828
"Bonaparte stands in a dispensary opening off a military hospital, conspiratorially giving orders to a slyly grinning doctor who shows him a bottle labelled 'Poison'. The general points to the hospital, separated from the dispensary by a curtain, where men, apparently moribund, lie on bedsteads. In the dispensary are jars, bottles, scales, pestle, and mortar; a small crocodile hangs from the roof (cf. British Museum Satires No. 11057). The most persistent of all 'atrocity' charges; certain plague-stricken French soldiers being given opium on the retreat from Acre in May 1799, see British Museum Satires No. 10063."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One of thirty plates from: The life of Napoleon, a hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos. London : Printed for T. Tegg, Wm. Allason ; Edinburgh : J. Dick, 1815., See also: W. Helfand, "The poisoning of the sick at Jaffa", Veröffentlichungen der Internat. Ges. für Geschichte der Pharmazie, neue Folge, volume 42, Wissenschaftl. Verlagsges. Stuttgart, 1975., and See further: Raymond Crawfurd, Plague and pestilence in literature and art, Oxford 1914, pages 200-211.
Publisher:
Published by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Israel. and Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Plague, Soldiers, Poisoning, Poisons, Peste, Hospitals, Interiors, Military hospitals, Sick persons, Physicians, Mortars & pestles, Scales, and Crocodiles