V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A dying man, wearing a tattered shirt, lies stretched on a miserable bed under a casement window, through which looks Death, a skeleton holding up an hour-glass and a javelin which he points menacingly at his victim. A fat doctor (left) sits asleep at the bedside (left) while an undertaker's man, with a coffin on his back, and holding a crêpe-bound mute's wand, enters from the right as if smelling out death. The doctor wears old-fashioned dress, with powdered wig, and has a huge gold-headed cane. Beside him are the words: "I purge I bleed I sweat em, Then if they Die I Lets em"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
One too many
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state; beginning of imprint statement appears to have been burnished from plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Plate numbered "292" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Doctor., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Skeletons, Physicians, Undertakers, Coffins, Hourglasses, Interiors, Sick persons, Deathbeds, and Windows
Having been released from Bridewell Prison, the harlot is shown in a squalid bed-chamber, wrapped in a long sheet and seated in a chair by the fire, her head resting against a pillow in a swoon. Her dismayed attendant turns for help from the two doctors who are quarreling about the benefit of their nostrums, the one standing in anger, in the process turning over a table and chair. A second attendant is rummaging through the harlot's trunk on the right. Sitting on the floor near the harlot's chair is a young boy, scratching his head as he roasts meat on a stick, heedless of the dramas in the room
Alternative Title:
In a high salivation and at the point of death
Description:
Title from caption above image., Printer's statement from Plate I of the series., Engraved below image, three columns, six lines each, beginning: From Bridewell fredd she quickly gains, The French disease and all its pains ..., No. 5 of a series of 6 pirated copies of Hogarth's engravings of "A harlot's progress". Imprint varies from the Bowles copy described as no. 2036, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Written in contemporary hand below text: Margery. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Iohn Bowles at Mercer's Hall in Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Bedrooms, Physicians, Prostitutes, Servants, and Sick persons
Seven figures walking toward the right, the Duchess of Kingston leading the way and uttering the words "By God and ...", with three fashionably dressed young women behind her, one carrying a bottle labelled "Cordial." Following them are a very corpulent clergyman, a physician wearing wig and sword, and an apothecary carrying a large and ornate syringe on his shoulder
Description:
On lower right beneath design: "Price 1 sh.", Attributed to Mortimer in the British Museum catalogue., and Earlier state, without inscription under the design. Cf. No. 5362 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Wigs, Pharmacists, Physicians, and Clergy
"A fashionably dressed man stands directed to the left, erect and debonair, a cane under his left arm. He takes a pinch of snuff, holding, besides the snuff-box, his top-hat. He has whiskers and small pigtail. From his coat-pocket projects a bottle labelled 'Two Spoonsfull to be taken at Bed time'. On the ground is a pill-box on its side, spilling its contents. He wears two thistles in the breast of his coat; a thistle-plant grows near his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Trip from Oxford to the land of cakes
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Prescriptions -- Thorn stick canes -- Scotland -- Male costume: 1809 -- Snuff boxes., and Watermark: 1814.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Ireland, John, 1745-1839
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Medicines, Pills, Staffs (Sticks), Snuff, and Thistles
"A fashionably dressed man stands directed to the left, erect and debonair, a cane under his left arm. He takes a pinch of snuff, holding, besides the snuff-box, his top-hat. He has whiskers and small pigtail. From his coat-pocket projects a bottle labelled 'Two Spoonsfull to be taken at Bed time'. On the ground is a pill-box on its side, spilling its contents. He wears two thistles in the breast of his coat; a thistle-plant grows near his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Trip from Oxford to the land of cakes
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Prescriptions -- Thorn stick canes -- Scotland -- Male costume: 1809 -- Snuff boxes.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Ireland, John, 1745-1839
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Medicines, Pills, Staffs (Sticks), Snuff, and Thistles
"Portrait, half-length, in profile to righ, left hand on low parapet next to him, the elbow turned out, gesturing up and to his side with right hand, looking towards the viewer, wearing a long wig, coat with large cuffs, and a heavy, decorated cloak thrown over right shoulder and brought round across the front to beneath his hand on the parapet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., With eight lines of verse in Latin beginning: Effigiem Taylor, tibi qui demissus ab alto est ... ..cui laudes saecula longa canant., On page 84 in volume 1., and Ms. pencil note in Steevens hand above print: Doctor Taylor.
Design consists of twenty-one individually-captioned panels arranged in three horizonal rows illustrating Johnny's arrival in Jamaica, his contracting Yellow Fever, his illness and temporary recovery, his brief participation in Jamaican society, his relapse and eventual death from the fever
Alternative Title:
Johnny Newcome in the island of Jamaica
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date altered on this impression from 1800 to 1803., Companion print to: Martial law in Jamaica., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill., and Date in imprint altered in ms. from "1800" to "1803."
Publisher:
Pubbished [sic] by Willm. Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Jamaica
Subject (Topic):
Social conditions, Black people, Bedrooms, Cemeteries, Clergy, Coffins, Couples, Death, Interiors, Physicians, Vomiting, and Yellow fever
A solicitor approaches a clergyman and doctor; over his head hovers a demonic creature holding a long legal document. The rotund clergyman, looking very displeased, is flanked by the head of an ass peering over his shoulder and a small dog urinating on his voluminous clerical robes. A smug looking doctor carrying a walking stick has one hand upturned pinching his index finger and thumb as if to gesture holding something while a young boy trails afterward holding a written prescription in his extended arm. A picture hanging on the wall depicts a crude drawing of a hanged man
Description:
Title from text inscribed above image., Date suggested by curator., and For further information, consult library staff.
Satire on the dispute between John Hill and Mountfort Brown showing Hill in his bed apparently feigning illness to avoid appearing in court after charging Brown with assault
Alternative Title:
Consultation
Description:
Title etched above image., Month and date of publication transposed, precedes publisher's statement., Printed on a single sheet with: A night scene at Ranelagh on Wednesday 6th of May 1752., "Price 6d."--Following imprint., One line of text below title: Extremâ moriens tamen alloquar horâ., Seven lines of 'Extract from the Covent Garden Journal' below image: Whereas several scandalous paragraphs have been published in a Common Newspaper ..., and First state of no. 3184 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3? Speech balloon of the first doctor on the left, and partial text below title varies.
"Satire on the dispute between John Hill and Mountfort Brown (see British Museum Satires No. 3183) showing Hill apparently feigning illness to avoid appearing in court after charging Brown with assault"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Consultation
Description:
Title etched above image., Clyster Pipe a pseudonym of Henry Carpenter? See British Museum catalogue., "Price 6d."--Following imprint., One line of text below title: Quamquam nihil testibus istis proficiam, Extremâ moriens tamen alloquar horâ., Seven lines of text below image: Whereas several scandalous paragraphs have been published in a Common Newspaper ..., and Plate slippage at bottom.