Creator: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker / Genre: Annotations (Provenance) 19th century / Language: English

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1. Calves' heads and brains, or, A phrenological lecture [graphic]

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Published / Created:: [September 1826]
Call Number:: 826.09.00.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A phrenologist, ugly and dandified, standing behind a table, lectures to an informally grouped and stupid-looking audience; he holds his naturalistic brown wig, revealing a bald head covered with reddened protuberances. His Concluding Address is engraved in the lower margin: Ladies and Gentlemen Having thus concluded the hundred and thirty ninth article, under the Head or Section of Propensities: I shall take my leave until the next lecture, by clearly elucidating in my own person an instance of Due Proportion of Faculties: Talkativeness with Gulling, standing First: and further beg to testify, beyond all doubt, . . . that on the Craniums of this highly gifted and scientific Audience, the Organ of Implicit faith Under Evident Contradictions, Stands beautifully develop'd to a Surprising and Prominent degree Dear Ladies Worthy Gentlemen; adieu. Nearest the lecturer is a family party: anxious wife, amused husband, and small boy with a head abnormally protuberant at the back. Two bald men anxiously feel their bumps; an agitated woman presses her forehead. A man inspects a skull. On the lecturer's table, with one of Gall's plaster heads mapped out in numbered compartments, are writing materials and books, two with titles: Treatise on Elementary and Logic. Portrait busts, all bald, stand on the floor; busts illustrating different propensities decorate the room. Two are placed conspicuously on the floor in front of the table, Dr. [sic] Ville [see British Museum Satires No. 15157] and Gall. Others are of Spurzhim [sic], Scott, Shakespeare, W. Clive, and Tremaine. Two of a group of skulls are inscribed Thirtell [Thurtell, the murderer, executed 1824] and Pollard. The busts featuring character (with appropriate expressions) are Gazing Faculty, Slyness, Pride, Sleepiness, Consequence. The book-case behind the lecturer contains, besides books, a skull and a large jar of coloured liquid inscribed Gall, it stands on a large book, Opinions on Men and things; beside this are Lock on Understanding and Aristotle (propped by a skull). The other books with titles are Moore, Lavater [two volumes], Lectures on Nothing [? Outinian Lectures, see British Museum Satires No. 14773]; a rolled document, Doctrino Particularum, lies on two large books: Self Knowledge and Commentana Critica. Treatise on Magic, Harriette Wilson [see British Museum Satires No. 14828, &c], Duty of Man, Mackenzie ['Man of Feeling'], Treatise on Doubt, Philosophers Stone, Combe [two volumes], Treatise on Gold Making, Bells Brain [two volumes, 'New Idea of the Anatomy of the Brain', 1811]. On the wall are three pictures: Bumps, two little boys boxing with huge spherical gloves; Life's a Bumper, a fat 'cit' toping in an arm-chair; Tony Lumpkin, who cracks a whip, and shouts as in Goldsmith's play. Below these are pinned up a pictorial advertisement and three prints. The first is headed by a human eye and the inscription, Sold by Royal Patent Phrenological Hats Adapted to Every Protuberance of Faculty or Organ Yet Discovered, above a cluster of misshapen hats and a little man wearing such a hat; below: To be Had [in] Caster . . . Two prints illustrate bust portraits: Abstraction and Suspicion. The third, Prying, is a print of Paul Pry, see British Museum Satires No. 15138."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Phrenological lecture
Description:: Title from text above image., Atrributed to Henry Thomas Alken in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1895,0617.455., Text below image begins: Concluding address: Ladies and gentlemen, having thus concluded the hundred and thirty ninth article ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Lectures., and Mr. De Ville of the Strand identified by ms. note in a contemporary hand in lower left of sheet.
Publisher:: Published Sepr. 1826 for the artist at St. Peters alley Corn Hill
Subject (Name):: Combe, George, 1788-1858,
Subject (Topic):: Phrenology, Public speaking, and Audiences
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Calves' heads and brains, or, A phrenological lecture [graphic]

2. Calves' heads and brains, or, A phrenological lecture [graphic]

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Published / Created:: [September 1826]
Call Number:: Print00516
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A phrenologist, ugly and dandified, standing behind a table, lectures to an informally grouped and stupid-looking audience; he holds his naturalistic brown wig, revealing a bald head covered with reddened protuberances. His Concluding Address is engraved in the lower margin: Ladies and Gentlemen Having thus concluded the hundred and thirty ninth article, under the Head or Section of Propensities: I shall take my leave until the next lecture, by clearly elucidating in my own person an instance of Due Proportion of Faculties: Talkativeness with Gulling, standing First: and further beg to testify, beyond all doubt, . . . that on the Craniums of this highly gifted and scientific Audience, the Organ of Implicit faith Under Evident Contradictions, Stands beautifully develop'd to a Surprising and Prominent degree Dear Ladies Worthy Gentlemen; adieu. Nearest the lecturer is a family party: anxious wife, amused husband, and small boy with a head abnormally protuberant at the back. Two bald men anxiously feel their bumps; an agitated woman presses her forehead. A man inspects a skull. On the lecturer's table, with one of Gall's plaster heads mapped out in numbered compartments, are writing materials and books, two with titles: Treatise on Elementary and Logic. Portrait busts, all bald, stand on the floor; busts illustrating different propensities decorate the room. Two are placed conspicuously on the floor in front of the table, Dr. [sic] Ville [see British Museum Satires No. 15157] and Gall. Others are of Spurzhim [sic], Scott, Shakespeare, W. Clive, and Tremaine. Two of a group of skulls are inscribed Thirtell [Thurtell, the murderer, executed 1824] and Pollard. The busts featuring character (with appropriate expressions) are Gazing Faculty, Slyness, Pride, Sleepiness, Consequence. The book-case behind the lecturer contains, besides books, a skull and a large jar of coloured liquid inscribed Gall, it stands on a large book, Opinions on Men and things; beside this are Lock on Understanding and Aristotle (propped by a skull). The other books with titles are Moore, Lavater [two volumes], Lectures on Nothing [? Outinian Lectures, see British Museum Satires No. 14773]; a rolled document, Doctrino Particularum, lies on two large books: Self Knowledge and Commentana Critica. Treatise on Magic, Harriette Wilson [see British Museum Satires No. 14828, &c], Duty of Man, Mackenzie ['Man of Feeling'], Treatise on Doubt, Philosophers Stone, Combe [two volumes], Treatise on Gold Making, Bells Brain [two volumes, 'New Idea of the Anatomy of the Brain', 1811]. On the wall are three pictures: Bumps, two little boys boxing with huge spherical gloves; Life's a Bumper, a fat 'cit' toping in an arm-chair; Tony Lumpkin, who cracks a whip, and shouts as in Goldsmith's play. Below these are pinned up a pictorial advertisement and three prints. The first is headed by a human eye and the inscription, Sold by Royal Patent Phrenological Hats Adapted to Every Protuberance of Faculty or Organ Yet Discovered, above a cluster of misshapen hats and a little man wearing such a hat; below: To be Had [in] Caster . . . Two prints illustrate bust portraits: Abstraction and Suspicion. The third, Prying, is a print of Paul Pry, see British Museum Satires No. 15138."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Phrenological lecture
Description:: Title from text above image., Atrributed to Henry Thomas Alken in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1895,0617.455., Text below image begins: Concluding address: Ladies and gentlemen, having thus concluded the hundred and thirty ninth article ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Lectures., and 1 print : soft-ground etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 32.6 cm, on sheet 30.3 x 39.6 cm.
Publisher:: Published Sepr. 1826 for the artist at St. Peters alley Corn Hill
Subject (Name):: Combe, George, 1788-1858,
Subject (Topic):: Phrenology, Public speaking, and Audiences
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Calves' heads and brains, or, A phrenological lecture [graphic]

3. Sporting exploits of a noble marquis [graphic]

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1850?]
Call Number:: 850.00.00.24+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Two lines of text below title: The noble marquis on his celebrated hunter Don Juan, jumping a five barred gate in a dining room at Melton ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark and imprint erased from sheet., Temporary local subject terms: Horse jumping -- Parlors -- Paintings on wall -- Clocks -- Fireplaces -- Mantels., and Identification in a contemporary hand following title: (Waterford).
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Sporting exploits of a noble marquis [graphic]

4. Symptoms of a few neat ones going to a mill ... of returning from the Epping hunt / [graphic]

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1822.
Call Number:: 822.00.00.22
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print presents multiple images each titled separately with a phrase that completes the "Symptoms" heading
Description:: Title from header and text within image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Epping Hunt -- Wounded -- Hunters -- Horses -- Workers., and Note in pencil in upper right corner: Vol. II Pl. 5.
Publisher:: Published by Thomas McLean, Haymarket
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Symptoms of a few neat ones going to a mill ... of returning from the Epping hunt / [graphic]

5. Symptoms of a first voyage ... fit for the home station. Captain sais as how is very bad. Fit for a foreign station ... of taking in the trouble ... of the five per cents ... of taking out the trouble / [graphic]

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1822.
Call Number:: 822.00.00.20
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print presents multiple images each titled separately with a phrase that completes the "Symptoms" heading
Description:: Title from header and text within image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Fighting -- Medicine -- Illness., and Note in pencil in upper right corner: Vol. II Pl. 3.
Publisher:: Published by Thomas McLean, Haymarket
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Symptoms of a first voyage ... fit for the home station. Captain sais as how is very bad. Fit for a foreign station ... of taking in the trouble ... of the five per cents ... of taking out the trouble / [graphic]

6. Symptoms of a great one ... of a fine one ... of a queer one ... of a save all .. of just got over a gate ... of a view on Brighton Cliffs / [graphic]

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1822.
Call Number:: 822.00.00.21
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from header and text within image., Print presents multiple images each titled separately with a phrase that completes the "Symptoms" heading., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Horses -- Carts -- Misers., and Note in pencil in upper right corner: Vol. II Pl. 2.
Publisher:: Published by Thomas McLean, Haymarket
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Symptoms of a great one ... of a fine one ... of a queer one ... of a save all .. of just got over a gate ... of a view on Brighton Cliffs / [graphic]

7. Symptoms of a view on Bagshot Heath 1st. Sepr. ... of training for the Epping hunt / [graphic]

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1822.
Call Number:: 822.00.00.17
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print presents multiple images each titled separately with a phrase that completes the "Symptoms" heading
Description:: Title from header and text within image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Horses -- Hunting -- Hunting dogs -- Jumping., and Note in pencil in upper right corner of sheet: Vol. II Pl. 12.
Publisher:: Published by Thomas McLean, Haymarket
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Symptoms of a view on Bagshot Heath 1st. Sepr. ... of training for the Epping hunt / [graphic]

8. Symptoms of being married ... of not being married ... of a parade ... of courting an old maid ... of not likely to be married / [graphic]

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1822.
Call Number:: 822.00.00.18
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print presents multiple images each titled separately with a phrase that completes the "Symptoms" heading
Description:: Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Marriage -- Couples -- Tea service -- Courtship., and Note in pencil in upper right corner of sheet: Vol. I Pl. III.
Publisher:: Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Symptoms of being married ... of not being married ... of a parade ... of courting an old maid ... of not likely to be married / [graphic]

9. Symptoms of did not know the house had stopped payment ... of basting a joint ... of following a leader / [graphic]

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1822.
Call Number:: 822.00.00.24
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print presents multiple images each titled separately with a phrase that completes the "Symptoms" heading
Description:: Title from header and text within image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Clerks -- Kitchens -- Black servants -- Beating -- Horses -- Carts -- Accidents., and Note in pencil in upper right corner of sheet: Vol. II Pl. 4.
Publisher:: Published by Thomas McClean, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):: Black people
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Symptoms of did not know the house had stopped payment ... of basting a joint ... of following a leader / [graphic]