A copy in reverse of William Hogarth's Plate 5 of A harlot's progress: In a squalid room Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies. Her serving-woman reaches out to them in alarm to get their attention for the invalid, while another woman rifles through Moll's portmanteau (with her initials as in Plate 1). A small boy knelling next to Moll's chair scratches his head as he turns a joint of meat roasting in front of the fire while a pot overflows on the grate. An over-turned table with an advertisement "Practical scheme ... 'Anodyne" litters the floor in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Harlot's progress. Plate 5, In a high salivation at the point of death, and Elle meurt en passant par le grand-reméde
Description:
Title in English and French engraved below image., Date of publication based on the series of Rake's progress by Henry Parker dated 25 March 1768 in which these same engraved border pieces are used, here visibly more worn, and reversed on the page., The ornamental borders along the left and right edges are printed from a separate plate (images 25 x 2.8 cm, on plate mark 25.5 x 36 cm)., Copy of Hogarth's original plate, engraved in reverse as per the piracy published by Elisha Kirkall in 1732., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2092., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 125.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Misaubin, Jean, 1673-1734. and Rock, Richard, 1690-1777.
"On a small platform a quack doctor stands on the left, while a dissenting parson wearing bands sits on a chair (right); both lean towards their customers. Behind is a curtain with the inscription 'The cheapest Booth in the Fair'. The quack, an open box of medicine-bottles beside him, holds out a bottle, saying, "This is the only cure my Dear Friends for every disorder incident to the human body but for cure and comfort to your Souls I must beg leave to refer you to my Partner the other side of the stage". A woman and a man gaze up at him. His partner holds out a pamphlet to an elderly woman who reaches up eagerly for it, proffering a coin. He says: "All my last books of Sermons going for two pence a piece cheaper by one penny than you can buy them on those days that I preaches in the fields: and if any of you ketchd a cold at that time I'd advise you to apply to my partner for a bottle or two of his Stuff." The heads and shoulders of two other persons complete the audience."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Souls and bodies cured without loss of time
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 3, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville Street
"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
Leaf 101. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of a man whole length standing in profile looking to the left. Under his arm is a large book, 'Vegetab[le] Syste[m] by D ...' He wears patched old-fashioned clothes and torn stockings, a short wig which fails to conceal his own hair. His hat is under his right arm, a cane under the left."--British Museum online catalogue and "A portrait of 'Sir' John Hill, a quack or charlatan with a diploma of medicine from the University of St. Andrews, but a botanist of some repute. He began the publication of his 'Vegetable System' in 1759, the last of twenty-six folio volumes coming out in 1775."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., and Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "24" in upper right corner.
Leaf 101. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of a man whole length standing in profile looking to the left. Under his arm is a large book, 'Vegetab[le] Syste[m] by D ...' He wears patched old-fashioned clothes and torn stockings, a short wig which fails to conceal his own hair. His hat is under his right arm, a cane under the left."--British Museum online catalogue and "A portrait of 'Sir' John Hill, a quack or charlatan with a diploma of medicine from the University of St. Andrews, but a botanist of some repute. He began the publication of his 'Vegetable System' in 1759, the last of twenty-six folio volumes coming out in 1775."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "24" in upper right corner., Third of three plates on leaf 101., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.4 x 12.5 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Title from item., One plate printed on two sheets, each of the sheets with its own title etched below image., Printmaker and artist from first state published print 1 Jan. 1790 by Bentley & Co. as: Magentic dispensary., Date surmised from publication date of Magazine., Above left half of the joined image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine., Reissue, with altered title, of no. 7748 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Machines for magnetic cures -- Bag-wig -- Male costume, 1790 -- Female costume, 1790 -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Animal magnetism -- Dr. Yeldell.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
De Mainauduc, John Boniot, -1797 and Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812
"An elderly man walks, stooping, in profile to the left, two large books under the left arm, an umbrella under the right, a walking-stick in his right hand. Books project from his coat-pocket. He wears high boots, a cocked hat, his queue is in a bag. Behind is the door of a shop, inscribed 'G. Riebau'. Part of the adjoining shop-window (left) is visible, inscribed '[A]uctioner. 439'. Against the panes are books, prints, and a notice: 'Old Books bought'. A placard hangs outside the window: 'Price 6 \ Imparti[al] Life of Paine.' (A pamphlet, 'Impartial Memoirs of the Life of Thomas Paine', was published in 1793.) Beneath the design:'Stop gentle Reader, and behold A Beau in Boots, who loves his Gold; A Walking bookseller, an Epicure, A Teacher, Doctor, & a Connoissieur. Alias Doctor V------ in his Wrigling attitude, hawking old Books as Moses does old Cloaths.''--British Museum online catalogue, description of later state
Alternative Title:
Dr. Verdion and Doctor Verdion
Description:
Title above image: Wonderful magazine., The bookseller is identified as Theodora Grahn (1744-1802) who used the pseudonym, “Baron de Verdion” in Germany and after moving to London around 1770 used the name Dr. John de Verdion and worked as a language teacher, translator, and seller of antiquarian books, coins, and medals. See British Museum online catalogue., From the Wonderful Magazine, v. 1, page 406., State without the bookshop's name above the door., Six lines of text below image: A remarkable walking bookseller, quack docter [sic], &c, &c. ..., and Earlier state, with misspelling in the text below image, of No. 8371 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Publisher:
Gratis to the purchasers of the Wonderful magazine, pubd. by C. Johnson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Grahn, Theodora, 1744-1802,
Subject (Topic):
Bookstores, Quacks, Staffs (Sticks), Umbrellas, and Window displays
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Print from: The attic miscellany, v. i, p. 121., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1790 -- Female costume, 1790 -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Animal magnetism -- Dr. Yeldell., and Mounted to 25 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by Bentley & Co.
Subject (Name):
De Mainauduc, John Boniot, -1797 and Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812
Plate 18. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The scene is the interior of a dispensary with the Viscount sitting in a chair, his child-mistress at his knee. The young girl holds a handkerchief to her mouth as if to hide a sore. With his right hand he holds a pill-box out to the doctor; with his left, he threatens him with his raised cane. A large, well-dressed woman looks angrily at the young man and opens a knife, while the quack polishes his glasses, at his side a skull on the table. The room contains numerous medical and scientific objects, including machines for straightening shoulders and for drawing corks, a dried crocodile, a narwhal's tusk, two mummies, a skeleton, and two pictures, one of a two-headed hermaphrodite and the other an anthropophagi (see Paulson). and After the painting "The Inspection" in the National Gallery, London
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 3
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Series title engraved below image., and State from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Crocodiles, Medical equipment & supplies, Nobility, Physicians, Prostitutes, Quacks, Scientific equipment, Sexually transmitted diseases, Skeletons, and Rake's progress
The scene is the interior of a dispensary with the Viscount sitting in a chair, his child-mistress at his knee. The young girl holds a handkerchief to her mouth as if to hide a sore. With his right hand he holds a pill-box out to the doctor; with his left, he threatens him with his raised cane. A large, well-dressed woman looks angrily at the young man and opens a knife, while the quack polishes his glasses, at his side a skull on the table. The room contains numerous medical and scientific objects, including machines for straightening shoulders and for drawing corks, a dried crocodile, a narwhal's tusk, two mummies, a skeleton, and two pictures, one of a two-headed hermaphrodite and the other an anthropophagi (see Paulson).
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 3
Description:
Ttitle and number engraved below image., State from Paulson., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Crocodiles, Medical equipment & supplies, Nobility, Rake's progress, Physicians, Prostitutes, Quacks, Scientific equipment, Sexually transmitted diseases, and Skeletons
