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1. Delivering a prophetess [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 November 1814]
- Call Number:
- Print10267
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A bedroom scene. Joanna Southcott sits in an arm-chair, attended by three women and four doctors. Between her legs is a large tub inscribed 'Living Water', into which water gushes from a tap projecting from under her petticoats. She leans back with extended arms, exclaiming: "Shiloh! let not this groupe dismay thee | Come forth into the World I pray thee!" One doctor, Reece, superintends the flow of water, kneeling in profile to the left on a large volume: '[R]eec's Medical Guide'. In his pocket is a paper: 'Account of Wonderful Pregnancies'. Behind him a second doctor sniffs at a tumbler of water, saying, "This is a very pretty rig! | Nothing but water d .... n my Wig!" Two others talk together on the right, one peers through a microscope into a goblet; the other asks: "What do you see in the water, Doctor!" He answers: "Bubbles Doctr "the earth hath bubbles, as the water hath ['Macbeth' I. iii]". I said it was all my eye." Behind him, on the chimney-piece, are a medicine-bottle and the bust of a lank-haired man wearing clerical bands. Three women stand behind Joanna's chair and in front of the curtains of a bed. One (left) holds out a lace cap, saying, "Doctor here is Shiloh's cap! bless me! why he has got a watery head! The next says: "Pray Doctr take care of the cawl if there is one." The third, offering a steaming bowl, says: "Come my blessed Lady sip some of this heavenly caudle I have made you." In the foreground (left), Tozer, dressed as an artisan, sits on a three-legged stool, corking up bottles of water. He is identified by a paper hanging from his pocket: 'Tozer Preacher to the Virgin Johanna'. In front of him are a basket of corks and a paper: 'Sermon on the Birth of Shiloh', Corked bottles are on the left, uncorked ones on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to on right edge., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 8 (November 1814), before page 321., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anecdotes -- Religious mania.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1814, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
- Subject (Name):
- Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828
- Subject (Topic):
- Childbirth, Obstetrics, Pregnancy, Prophecy, Interiors, Bedrooms, Physicians, Bottles, Microscopes, Wash tubs, and Stools
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Delivering a prophetess [graphic].
2. Paving the way for a royal divorce [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1 October 1816]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 30. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Regent at the head of a table (left) on which are decanters and dessert, holds a consultation with five advisers. He sits on a dais, with his right leg thrown over an arm of his chair; the right arm over the back, spilling a glass of wine. He says jocosely: "Well my boys, I think now we shall succeed D--d fine evidence from the states of Barbary (if that cursed Hedgehog dont get hold of it; the very man that says he acted as Accoucheur I have got over every thing as clear as the Sun at noon day, I knew what fellows those Turks were, only once get her over there & the thing was accomplished,--now for a divorce as soon as possible, I have a tit bit in my eye, & if I dont yet get a son, say that I am not a chip of the old Block!!" At his right sits Castlereagh, with the Prince's feathers and motto on the back of his chair. He turns his head in profile, saying, "I'm an unmatched negociator [see British Museum Satires No. 12501] and I'll enter into a treaty with the House of commons to secure your suit." In his pocket is a paper: 'Negociat . . with the'. Lord Eldon faces Castlereagh; he wears his Chancellor's wig and gown; the Purse of the Great Seal hangs on the wall behind him. He says: "I'll stick to your highness through thick and thin or never call me Old Bags again as long as I live!!" At the foot of the table sits Ellenborough, in wig and gown, towards whom the other two members of the Cabinet turn in alarm. Liverpool (a poor portrait) sitting opposite Vansittart, says: "I have my doubts and qualms of conscience your highness what say you, Van?" Vansittart, in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown: "Oh my Lord I have some strange touches of feeling on the subject!" He sits on a sack inscribed 'Budget'; from a rent in it projects a paper: 'to . . . 6.000000'. Ellenborough shakes his fist at Vansittart, rising from his chair which overturns: "Dont put me in a passion with your qualms and your touches, they are all "false, false as Hell" I'll blow you all to the D--l if you dont stick to your Master manfully!!" On the floor beside him lie three large volumes, 'Law of Divorce [Vol. I]. Vol III, Vol II.' Behind the Regent hangs a portrait with the feet only showing: '[Hen]ry VIII'. Beside him are a full wine-cooler, with empty bottles lying by it, and an open book: 'The Secret Memoirs of a Prince By Humphry Hedgehog Esqr 1810' [or 1816]."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with date removed from imprint statement, of a print originally published 1 October 1816 as a plate to: The Scourge and satyrist, or, Literary, theatrical and miscellaneous magazine. For the earlier state, see No. 12808 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 30 of: George Humphrey shop album.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Johnston, 98 Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547., Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, and Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Divorce, Tables, Chairs, Podiums, Wine, Bottles, and Books
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Paving the way for a royal divorce [graphic].
3. Sic transit gloria mundi city, or, The old nurse's meditation [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [July 1811]
- Call Number:
- 811.07.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The nurse, a respectable-looking woman wearing a cap and apron, stands in profile to the right beside an open coffin placed on trestles; she rests her left hand on a shrouded protuberance. In her right is a glass filled from a bottle of 'Gin' on a table (left). The coffin lid rests against the wall: 'Gabl Paunch Citizen and Alderman of Gobble Ward Obeit [sic] Novr 10th 1810 Ætat 45 Years'. A plate on the ornate coffin is decorated with a bottle, bird, glass, &c. On a chest of drawers are many medicine-bottles all labelled: 'Opening draught Aldn Paunch'. An alderman's gown hangs on the wall. Torn papers lie beside a chair: 'List of City Feasts for the Year 1810' and 'Swan Hop'. [Upping]. A round bath or tub is on the floor (left). The nurse says: "Ah! all the good things of this world wont save us e'faith!! this belly I warrant you has held as many bottles of wine in it's time as ever a Getter in the City, well poor Mr Alderman Paunch! God rest his Soul! he was a good creature! He never grudged the poor what he didn't love himself. Oh those poor pale lips! where's all the Chickens, and all the Capons, and all the Ducks, and all the turkeys, and all the pullets, and all the fowls, and all the game, and all the hams, and all chines, and all the haunches of Venison, and all the turbot, and all the Salmon, and all the fish, and the beef and the turtle, and the marrow-pudding, and the pies, and the Custards, and all the dainties, it has cost the City so much money for, what will he do poor soul if there's no such good things where he is gone too.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Sic transit gloria city and Old nurse's meditation
- Description:
- Title from caption below image; "mundi" scored through and replaced by "city.", Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side.
- Publisher:
- Pub. July 1811 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Bottles, Coffins, Gin, and Nurses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sic transit gloria mundi city, or, The old nurse's meditation [graphic].
4. The three best physicians, Dr. Diet, Dr. Merryman and Dr. Quit a hint to hippocondriacks. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1813]
- Call Number:
- Print00739
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bedroom scene: an invalid in a dressing-gown sits smiling in an arm-chair, while a fat yawning doctor, 'Quiet', puts a night-cap on his head. On the right 'Merryman', dressed as a zany or clown, with a gridiron painted on the back of his striped tunic, kicks Death towards the door (right), and presses his cap like an extinguisher against its grinning skull; he says: "Be Off! Be Off! you have no chance where Diet Merryman and Quiet practice!" Death answers: "Then my first job must be to quiet you and your partners will soon follow." Quiet: "Come now for a little quiet; Merrymans dose has opperated suficiently!" The patient holds a 'merrythought'. A fat cook, 'Diet', stands on the left inspecting a dish of bare chicken bones; he says, grinning broadly: "He'll do! Pick'd the bones clean! We shall beat the Charlotte Street Medical Board hollow!" A dinner-table, with an empty plate, a decanter of 'Madiera' and a loaf, is on the left, and behind it a large canopied bed. The chimneypiece (right), is covered with medicine-bottles. The floor is boarded. On it lie two piles of 'Carricatures', evidently the 'Caricature Magazine', on which the imprint is inscribed. There are also books lettered 'Jests'. A puff for Tegg's Magazine, cf. British Museum Satires No. 11976."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Numbered "380" in upper right corner of design., Temporary local subject terms: Bed curtains -- Doctors., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Diet -- Dr. Merryman -- Dr. Quiet -- *Charlotte Street Medical Board -- Skeleton as Death -- Diet., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 245 x 346 mm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Death (Personification), Bedrooms, Physicians, Skeletons, Clowns, Draperies, Canopy beds, Cooks, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Fireplaces, and Bottles
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The three best physicians, Dr. Diet, Dr. Merryman and Dr. Quit a hint to hippocondriacks. [graphic]
5. The three best physicians, Dr. Diet, Dr. Merryman and Dr. Quit a hint to hippocondriacks. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1813]
- Call Number:
- 813.00.00.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bedroom scene: an invalid in a dressing-gown sits smiling in an arm-chair, while a fat yawning doctor, 'Quiet', puts a night-cap on his head. On the right 'Merryman', dressed as a zany or clown, with a gridiron painted on the back of his striped tunic, kicks Death towards the door (right), and presses his cap like an extinguisher against its grinning skull; he says: "Be Off! Be Off! you have no chance where Diet Merryman and Quiet practice!" Death answers: "Then my first job must be to quiet you and your partners will soon follow." Quiet: "Come now for a little quiet; Merrymans dose has opperated suficiently!" The patient holds a 'merrythought'. A fat cook, 'Diet', stands on the left inspecting a dish of bare chicken bones; he says, grinning broadly: "He'll do! Pick'd the bones clean! We shall beat the Charlotte Street Medical Board hollow!" A dinner-table, with an empty plate, a decanter of 'Madiera' and a loaf, is on the left, and behind it a large canopied bed. The chimneypiece (right), is covered with medicine-bottles. The floor is boarded. On it lie two piles of 'Carricatures', evidently the 'Caricature Magazine', on which the imprint is inscribed. There are also books lettered 'Jests'. A puff for Tegg's Magazine, cf. British Museum Satires No. 11976."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Numbered "380" in upper right corner of design., Temporary local subject terms: Bed curtains -- Doctors., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Diet -- Dr. Merryman -- Dr. Quiet -- *Charlotte Street Medical Board -- Skeleton as Death -- Diet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Death (Personification), Bedrooms, Physicians, Skeletons, Clowns, Draperies, Canopy beds, Cooks, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Fireplaces, and Bottles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The three best physicians, Dr. Diet, Dr. Merryman and Dr. Quit a hint to hippocondriacks. [graphic]