"Long, dressed as a funeral mute or mourner, stands full-face, legs apart, carrying four large boards like a sandwich-man (then "board-man"). Only his draped hat and eyes appear above the central board. In his hand is a staff draped in black which is inscribed 'Killing No Murder' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 11371]. At his feet are many ducks, all angrily quacking: 'quack!!'; 'quack!!!'; or (one) 'cruel quack'. He says, quoting a nursery rhyme, 'Come, Dilly, Dilly, Dilly, come and be killed!!!' The principal board is headed 'To the Public', with the Royal Arms. Inscriptions: 'A Receipt of my Grandmothers | Decline Arrested | Consumption prevented | A Cure for all diseases | By The Simple | process of | Skinning Alive | protected by the | NOBILITY | and a House-Full of | Ladies | of the first Distinction | Dr Needy, Harley-Street | NO QUACKERY'. On both flanking boards are a grinning skull and cross-bones inscribed 'momento [sic] mori'; on one (left) are wine-glasses, tankard, and bottle and 'A Short Life and a Merry one'; (right) 'N.B. . Short Accounts make LONG Friends'. Behind is a funeral procession with two coffins, preceded by a duck. This passes the railings of a London square. Behind are houses, on one of which is a hatchment, and a church-steeple on which prances a tiny devil flourishing a trident."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Oracle of Harley Street
Description:
Title etched below image., Second title etched above image: The Oracle of Harley Street., Signed at bottom of plate with the initials "J.D.R." followed by a depiction of an artist's palette., Possibly etched by 'Sharpshooter' (the pseduonym of John Phillips); see British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consumption -- Funerals -- Manslaughter -- Drugs.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Long, John St. John, 1798-1834
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Malpractice, Quacks, Signs (Notices), and Ducks
"A quack doctor (right) stands outside his house surrounded by a pyramid of bottles inscribed 'Velnos Syrup', one of which he holds up, demonstrating its virtues with a complacent smile to a band of rival practitioners (left) who are furiously threatening his barricade. Behind his head is inscribed : 'List of Cures \ In 1788,5,000 \ In 1789, 10,000'. The house is at the corner of 'Frith Street'; it has a porch inscribed in large letters 'Mr Swainson N. 21'. A surgeon threatens Swainson with a knife, raising also a leg to kick. A second surgeon kneels on one knee, also holding a knife and glaring ferociously; beside him is a basket of surgeon's instruments. Behind him is a man who directs an enormous syringe at the self-satisfied Swainson. An old man wearing spectacles holds up a 'Pill Box'. These assailants are dominated by a very stout man in the rear who holds up a pestle in one hand, in the other a mortar inscribed 'Mercury the only Specific'. Above his head is poised a nude Mercury holding a caduceus and urging on the attacking force."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vegetable intrenchment and Vegetable entrenchment
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue and Grego., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Proprietary medicines -- Velnos Syrup.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 29, 1789, by W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Swainson, Isaac, 1746-1812
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Interpersonal confrontation, Physicians, Mercury, Patent medicines, Bottles, Sculpture, Medical equipment & supplies, and Mortars & pestles
"A fat citizen (three-quarter length), seated in an armchair, endures an operation upon the carbuncles of his bloated nose. The operator (left), thin and high-shouldered, holds the patient's forehead and applies a small pointed instrument (a metallic tractor) causing flames to gush from nose and nostrils. On a small table (left) are a decanter of 'Brandy' with a jug and steaming glass, lemon, and sugar, the patient's pipe lying across a newspaper: 'The True Briton. Theatre Dead Alive. Grand Exhibition in Leicester Square, just arrived from America the Rod of Æsculapius. Perkinism in all its Glory - being a certain Cure for all Disorders, Red Noses, Gouty Toes, Windy Bowels, Broken Legs, Hump Backs. Just discover'd, the Grand Secret of the Philosopher's Stone with the True way of turning all Metals into Gold, pro bono publico.' On the wall (right) is a picture of an infant Bacchus, astride a cask, holding out a decanter and a glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Metallic tractors -- Perkins, Elisha., 1 print : etching and aquatint with engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 24.4 x 31.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 11, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Quacks and quackery, Quacks, Medical procedures & techniques, Medical equipment & supplies, Pipes (Smoking), Newspapers, and Dogs
"A fat citizen (three-quarter length), seated in an armchair, endures an operation upon the carbuncles of his bloated nose. The operator (left), thin and high-shouldered, holds the patient's forehead and applies a small pointed instrument (a metallic tractor) causing flames to gush from nose and nostrils. On a small table (left) are a decanter of 'Brandy' with a jug and steaming glass, lemon, and sugar, the patient's pipe lying across a newspaper: 'The True Briton. Theatre Dead Alive. Grand Exhibition in Leicester Square, just arrived from America the Rod of Æsculapius. Perkinism in all its Glory - being a certain Cure for all Disorders, Red Noses, Gouty Toes, Windy Bowels, Broken Legs, Hump Backs. Just discover'd, the Grand Secret of the Philosopher's Stone with the True way of turning all Metals into Gold, pro bono publico.' On the wall (right) is a picture of an infant Bacchus, astride a cask, holding out a decanter and a glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., A reduced copy of a print by James Gillray, published 11 November 1801 by Hannah Humphrey. Cf. No. 9761 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Publication information from that of the periodical in which the plate was issued., Plate from: London und Paris. Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1802, Bd. 9., Numbered "No. VIII" in upper right corner of design., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 281., Cf. Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 506., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Metallic tractors.
Publisher:
Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs
Subject (Name):
Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Quacks and quackery, Quacks, Medical procedures & techniques, Medical equipment & supplies, Pipes (Smoking), Newspapers, and Dogs
Plate 61. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A mock coat-of-arms for physicians with fifteen heads of doctors, three of whom, in the top row, are identified as John Taylor, Sarah Mapp, and Joshua Ward; three in the lower centre peer at liquid in a glass phial, the one to left using a pince-nez. The whole is contained within a black border or hatchment supported by cross-bones. The text on the scroll at the bottom of the design: "Et plurima mortis imago."
Description:
Title etched below image., "Price six pence.", Title from British Museum catalogue: A consultation of physicians., Caption below image begins: "Beareth sable, an urinal proper, between 12 quack-heads of the second & 12 caneheads or consultant ...", Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dod, Pierce (1683-1754) -- Bamber, Dr., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 263 x 178 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Ward, Joshua, 1685-1761, Taylor, John, 1703-1772, and Mapp, Sarah
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Published in Puck, 7 September 1887., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
J. Ottmann lith. Puck Building N.Y.
Subject (Geographic):
United States and New York (State)
Subject (Name):
McGlynn, Edward, 1837-1900 and George, Henry, 1839-1897
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Drugs, Medicine shows, Working class, Priests, Newspaper vendors, and Politics and government
A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Doctor Rock (Richard Rock 1690-1777) was an itinerant medicine vendor who frequented the London areas of St. Pauls and Covent Garden. He was famous for his "anti-venereal, grand, specifick pill". He was satirised in several caricatures: W. Hogarth represented him in A harlot's progress pl. V; The march to Finchley; and The four times of the day, morning and "A fashionably-dressed man kneels in profile to the left at a large chest of 'Patent Medecines', on which is a duck with the inscription 'Quack. Quack. Quack' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 5766]. A hanging candelabra and a festooned curtain indicate wealth. He prays to the shade of Dr. Rock, describes the composition of his famous Vegetable Drops, and asks for the continuance of 'my Carriages and Equipage, my Town and Country Residence, and all other good things of this life ...'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Publisher from imprints present on other plates in the series. For information on the series, see page 51 in v. 8. of the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Date of publication from Grego., and Twenty-one lines of letterpress text below title: Illustrious shade of the renowned Dr. Rock, still continue, I beseech thee ...
Publisher:
R. Ackermann and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Rock, Richard, 1690-1777 and Doctor Botherum.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Selling, Drugs, Medicine, Chests, Ducks, Costume, Candelabra, Draperies, Prayer, Quacks, and Patent medicines
"Graham, the well-known quack, stands above and behind a crowd of listeners, all men, some in profile, some in back view, some full-face, the heads and shoulders only being visible, except in the foreground where there is a row of half length figures seated apparently on a bench. The expressions of the audience vary, some look up at the lecturer, others turn their backs, many are grinning. Graham holds a rolled document in one hand as in British Museum Satires No. 6324, &c. The room is lit by a small pendant chandelier with four candles, and by single candles in sconces round the walls."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dr. James Graham lecturing in Edinburgh
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with year "1785" added in lower right (digit "7" etched backwards). For earlier state lacking year, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.13.7., Possibly a nineteenth-century reissue; cf. A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838, v. 1. no. 12., and Annotation in pencil on verso: Dr. Jas. Graham lecturing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Graham, James, 1745-1794
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Public speaking, Audiences, Chandeliers, and Sconces
A fat man (right), seated in an armchair, undergoes an operation upon the carbuncles of his bloated nose. The thin operator (left) holds the patient's forehead and applies a small pointed instrument (a metallic tractor) to his nose. The seated man grits his teeth, clenches his fists, and winces in pain
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Unsigned; attribution to Gillray from curator., Date inferred from that of the related print., For Gillray's print of similar design that was published in 1801 by H. Humphrey, see no. 9761 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Metallic tractors -- Perkins, Elisha.
Subject (Name):
Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Quacks and quackery, Quacks, Medical procedures & techniques, and Medical equipment & supplies