Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from style., This electronic 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: Physicians caricatured.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Pulse, Physician and patient, Physical diagnosis, Physicians, Clocks & watches, Donkeys, Sick persons, and Bedrooms
Title assigned by cataloger., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Plate numbered "134" in lower right corner.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
1st March 1782.
Call Number:
782.03.01.02.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly doctor wearing a wig rides a wretched-looking horse. The rider looks fierce; pulling on the reins, he looks ready to use his whip to slash the sorry horse
Alternative Title:
Doctor Dawdle in a hurry
Description:
Title from later state., Title written in pencil beneath image., Early state, before title engraved below image. For the later state bearing title, see no. 6142 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7., Printed on a single sheet with: Symptoms of running away / Js. Bretherton f. Dated January 9, 1782., Collector's stamp: letter 'E' in lower left corner, on verso., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Title devised by curator., In ink lower margin: Docr. Gall drawn by T. Rowlandson and given to his old friend Smith., Date of production based on artist's death date., Place of production based on artist's nationality., Ownership stamp in red ink, lower left: LSD., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"Portraits, full-length: Dr. Glen on the left talking to Robertson, who stands opposite, his hat in his right hand and a staff topped with two heads."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Dr. Glen & Laird Robertson
Description:
Title from volume in which the print was issued., Later state, with plate number added., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings, by the late John Kay ... Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 1., Plate numbered "9" in lower right corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Idiocy.
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):
Glen, Dr., -1786 and Robertson, James, -1790
Subject (Topic):
Mentally ill persons, Physicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title devised by curator., From: Das Leben und die Meinungen des Tristram Shandy: Karl Ernst Bohn, Berlin, 1776., Top inscription: VIII. ; VI. Th. pag.11., Sheet trimmed through top inscription., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of engraved British Portraits, v.5, p. 59, Numbered '167' in upper right corner., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Temporary local subject terms: James Rae -- Dentists -- William Laing -- James Hay -- Doctors.
Title supplied by curator., Original painting also known as "The Alchemist"., Date supplied by cataloger., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Office, interior., and Title in pencil in margin.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Old age, Medical offices, Skulls, Older people, Books, Hourglasses, and Writing materials
Print shows a group of five grotesquely caricatured men attending to a sixth man identified as Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, who is lecturing them on a skull which he holds up in his left hand. An open volume rests on a lectern beneath the lecturers prominent stomach, and the walls around the group are lined with shelves holding a collection of skulls and busts; the three shelves located behind them at left are labeled: Lawyers, thieves & murderers. - Poets, dramatists, actors. - Philosophers, statesmen & historians
Alternative Title:
Dr. Gall's lecture
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gall, F. J. 1758-1828 (Franz Joseph), and Gall, F. J. 1758-1828. (Franz Joseph),
Subject (Topic):
Craniology, Phrenology, Skull, Science, Physicians, and Lectures and lecturing
Print shows a group of five grotesquely caricatured men attending to a sixth man identified as Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, who is lecturing them on a skull which he holds up in his left hand. An open volume rests on a lectern beneath the lecturers prominent stomach, and the walls around the group are lined with shelves holding a collection of skulls and busts; the three shelves located behind them at left are labeled: Lawyers, thieves & murderers. - Poets, dramatists, actors. - Philosophers, statesmen & historians
Alternative Title:
Dr. Gall's lecture
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 241 x 195 mm., and Ink annotation in lower right margin: H.C. from A.C.K. Feb. 1915.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gall, F. J. 1758-1828 (Franz Joseph), and Gall, F. J. 1758-1828. (Franz Joseph),
Subject (Topic):
Craniology, Phrenology, Skull, Science, Physicians, and Lectures and lecturing