"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 ...
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Title etched below image.
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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
"A young and very smart officer lunges forward, pointing his tasselled cane at one of a line of soldiers who stand rigidly at attention full face, but with 'Eyes right' (the words inscribed at the end of the cane). He shouts: "Hold up your Head that M...
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Title etched at bottom of image.
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Publishd. Novr. 12th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Bust portrait in an oval. Scarcely a caricature but a study in facial expression of a cornered swindler. A man, fashionably dressed, but with dishevelled hair, gazes fixedly to the left, with pursed mouth and wrinkled forehead. Below the design is a ...
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Title from quotation etched above image.
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Publishd. Novr. 18th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
"Eight elderly topers with pipes and glasses surround a small oblong table, on which are punch-bowl, wine-glasses, tobacco, &c. All are much caricatured; some sing, a parson sleeps, a dog howls. The room is lit by a chandelier; a bracket-clock points ...
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Mrs. Billington, directed to the right, sings with head thrown back, right hand on her breast, left arm extended. She is stout and majestic, wears many jewels and quasi-contemporary dress, with four tall feathers and jewelled aigrette in her hair, fr...
Alternative Title:
Mandane
Description:
Title etched at top of image.
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Publish'd Decr. 22d, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The Duke of York with his officers on horseback on the left, with Valenciennes in the distance with smoking ruins to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image.
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Published December 1st, 1801, for R. & V. Green by R. Cribb, No. 288 Holborn, and by Chr. de Mechel at C. Geisweilers, No. 42 Parliament Street, London
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
The stout, middle aged figure of Tommy Onslow drives an elegant high perch phaeton drawn by four spirited horses, in a cloud of dust, along the Rotten Row in Hyde Park. He wears a coachman's caped coat and top hat with a large whip in his hand. Two gr...
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd May 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
On the right a Jewish stockbrocker with a very large belly stands in the door way of his establishment; the sign over the door identifies him as "Solomon Stock broke[r]". He addresses two jolly-looking 'cits'; their dog barks angrily at the stockbroke...
"An obese and carbuncled barrister stands in profile to the left, shouting with raised fingers; in his left hand is a sheaf of papers. He wears the wig of a serjeant-at-law, with its black patch (cf. No. 5900), and his gown drapes his old-fashioned pr...
Alternative Title:
Councillor
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
