"A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated,...
Alternative Title:
Masonic anecdote
Description:
Titles in English and French etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 21st, 1786, for the proprietor by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
Subject (Topic):
Freemasonry, Quacks and quackery, Fraternal organizations, Interiors, Dining tables, Chairs, Candles, and Eating & drinking
A group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. A version of the print also published with lettering "The company of undertakers". The three named quacks occupy the top, twelve other 'doctors' are s...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"From the bustle and life visible on all sides it would seem that the period is fair-time, when the rustics and agricultural population of the vicinity in general flock into the town, holiday-making. A travelling mountebank has established his theatre...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 6 March 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Teeth, Extraction, Jews, City & town life, Plazas, Medicine shows, Audiences, Crowds, Peddlers, and Butchers
"A fat citizen (three-quarter length), seated in an armchair, endures an operation upon the carbuncles of his bloated nose. The operator (left), thin and high-shouldered, holds the patient's forehead and applies a small pointed instrument (a metallic ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 11, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Quacks and quackery, Quacks, Medical procedures & techniques, Medical equipment & supplies, Pipes (Smoking), Newspapers, and Dogs
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on th...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
Plate 61. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A mock coat-of-arms for physicians with fifteen heads of doctors, three of whom, in the top row, are identified as John Taylor, Sarah Mapp, and Joshua Ward; three in the lower centre peer at liquid in a glass phial, the one to left using a pince-nez. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Ward, Joshua, 1685-1761, Taylor, John, 1703-1772, and Mapp, Sarah
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
Plate 61. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A mock coat-of-arms for physicians with fifteen heads of doctors, three of whom, in the top row, are identified as John Taylor, Sarah Mapp, and Joshua Ward; three in the lower centre peer at liquid in a glass phial, the one to left using a pince-nez. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Ward, Joshua, 1685-1761, Taylor, John, 1703-1772, and Mapp, Sarah
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
Plate 6. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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 rif...
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Misaubin, Jean, 1673-1734. and Rock, Richard, 1690-1777.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Beds, Children, Death, Interiors, Quacks, Prostitutes, Servants, Syphilis, Rake's progress, and Sexually transmitted diseases
