"Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and supported by a young man, while a seated man wearing a tricorn smiles and points at her and an elderly woman stands with her arms folded under her apron, a dog at her heels; two posters pasted on the wall behind, shelves, bellows and other kitchen implements in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of the same design
Description:
Title from a copy published by Carington Bowles, July 17th, 1770., Unsigned; attributed to Francis Grose., and Date of production based on exhibition history; this drawing was exhibited at the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1767.
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Interiors, Kitchens, Servants, Peg legs, Violins, Bellows, and Dogs
Title devised by curator., Artist's signature in grey ink at lower right., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Part of "Drawings from the Old Zurich Hospital".
Subject (Geographic):
Switzerland.
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospitals, Mental illness, Singing, and Sick persons
Title devised by curator., Signature in ink at lower left., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Page 185. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., Mounted below on the same page is a watercolor drawing of nearly the same scene., and Mounted on page 185 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[before 1809]
Call Number:
Print00996
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in ink at lower left., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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
Title from published print: Published Octr., 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title devised by curator., Pencil inscription verso., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local subject terms: Country doctors., Temporary local subject terms: Dental examination., Temporary local subject terms: Corns., and Temporary local subject terms: Office interiors.
Subject (Topic):
Podiatry, Dentistry, Dental offices, Pain, and Surgery
Title devised by curator. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.