A group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. A version of the print also published with lettering "The company of undertakers". The three named quacks occupy the top, twelve other 'doctors' are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal while another holds it.
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from watermark., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered "138" in lower left corner., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 144., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2299., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1817.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
After page 16. Trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, attending her trial for bigamy. The maids of honour hold a bottle marked "cordial". They are followed by a fat chaplain, a physician with a bigwig and sword, and a lean apothecary with a big enema syringe and "Seven figures walk from left to right. First is the (so-called) Duchess of Kingston, short and stout. She is saying "By God and", and holds out her hands with a gesture of affirmation. Behind her walk three young women, her 'maids of honour', who are tall and slim in contrast with their mistress. One carries a large square bottle inscribed "cordial". All four ladies are dressed alike in the fashion of the day with low bodices and high coiffures decorated with feathers and flowers. Next comes a fat clergyman, his mouth open as of shouting. He is followed by the physician wearing a big-wig and sword. Last walks the apothecary, lean and bent, also wearing a sword, and carrying an enormous and ornately decorated syringe which rests on his right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Elizabeth Chudleigh married the Hon. Augustus John Hervey secretly in 1744; the marriage was not registered until 1759. In 1769 a consistory court declared her unmarried, after which she married Evelyn Pierrepoint, 2nd Duke of Kingston, in 1770. She was tried and convicted for bigamy in 1776, the surgeon Caesar Hawkins having testified to the birth of her son by Hervey. She left England immediately and lived thereafter in Paris, St Petersburg and Rome., Title engraved above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with text added below image. For an earlier state lacking this text, see National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D32146., Date of publication based on date of newspaper citation below image., Text below image: Then the Duchess was brought into court attended by her chaplain, physician, apothecary, & three maids of honor. Morning post, May 16, 1776., "Price 1 sh."--Lower right, below image., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Syringe -- Apothecary -- Medows, Philip, 1708-1781., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries -- Clyster., and Tipped in after page 16 in an extra-illustrated copy of: The trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right Honourable the House of Peers ... London : Printed for Charles Bathurst, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXVI [1776].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 and Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Physicians, pharmacists, physicians, chaplains, Chaplains, Trials (Bigamy), Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, and Clergy
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 111. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a barber in profile outside his shop holding out his instruments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Early state of the plate, before drypoint shading added to the figure's face and hair. For a later state with this additional shading, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.94., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left side., Temporary local subject terms: Surgeons -- Signboards -- Medical instruments: Lancet -- Barbers implements: Razor and shaving dish -- Bob wigs -- Bob-majors wigs -- Scratches wigs -- Food: Reference to sausages -- Reference to washballs -- Black pudding -- Medicine: Reference to Scotch pills -- Reference to powder for the itch., and Mounted on page 111 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 1, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Barbering, Medical equipment & supplies, Pharmacists, Physicians, Shaving equipment, Signs (Notices), Stocks (Punishment), and Wigs