Lieutenant Bowling pleading the cause of young Rory to his grandfather
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: Vide, Roderick Random, Vol. I, Chap. III., Illustration to Adventures of Roderick Random., "Plate 1st"--Lower left corner., Originally issued in 1792? See: Grego. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 308-310., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Disease -- Medical equipment -- Officer's uniform -- Furniture: armchair -- Furnishings: portraits -- Architectural details: door frame -- Literature: illustration to Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Medicine in Literature., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 270 x 344 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Smollett, T. 1721-1771. (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Wheelchairs, Military uniforms, Mirrors, and Interiors
"An apothecary's shop, the walls covered by jars closely ranged on shelves, a stuffed fish hanging from the ceiling. Behind a curtain (right) Death, wearing an apron, pounds at a mortar of 'slow Poison', looking gleefully in a mirror to watch the customers. The fat quack compounds medicines at the counter. A grotesque crowd of agonized patients enters through a doorway (left) inscribed 'Apothecaries Hall'. Two sit in arm-chairs. The jars are 'Canthar[ides]', 'Arsnic', 'Opium', 'Nitre', 'Vitriol', 'Elixir', with (right) 'Restorativ Drops'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
I have a secret art to cure each malady, which men endure
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: I have a secret art to cure / each malady, which men endure., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 1, opposite page 85., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death -- Pharmacy, interior -- Apothecaries.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1- 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Quacks and quackery, Skeletons, Interiors, Drugstores, Pharmacists, Mortars & pestles, Sick persons, Medicines, Shelving, Containers, and Mirrors
