"The convalescent sits full face behind a small dinner-table. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction, and is about to carve a bird. He wears his nightcap. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, smiling broadly."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: Footman in Livery -- Table Settings -- Food: Fowl -- Convalescents -- Medical Procedures -- Dishes: Gravy Boat., and 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple ; 265 x 204 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
"Interior view of the dining hall in the hospital; fresco covering end wall; men in red coats and black hats sit at long tables in hall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 252., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 98., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Chelsea Hospital -- Chelsea pensioners., and 1 print : aquatint and etching ; plate mark 23.5 x 27.7 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Veterans' hospitals, Dinners and dining, Interiors, Murals, Dining rooms, Dining tables, Eatings & drinking, Disabled veterans, Amputees, and Peg legs
"Gouty gourmands at dinner."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Ninth plate of twelve, designed to illustrate Christopher Anstey's The new Bath guide., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Republished in 1857 by Robert Walker. See no. 9321 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 6th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Name):
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Health resorts, Wheelchairs, Crutches, Dining tables, and Eating & drinking
"Four over-fed doctors carouse at a table laden with rounds of beef and decanters. Each holds up a glass and gives a toast. The man at the head of the table (left): 'Long life to our Central Board--R |. "in medio tutissimus bibis [for ibis]"--as we say in the classics'. His vis-à-vis: 'May we preserve our health by bleeding the country'. The man in back view: 'I drink Reform in our Hospitals, may they close their doors against the public & the poor die in Hackney coaches'. On the back of his chair: 'Board & Lodging'. His vis-à-vis: 'I pledge myself to keep some cases afloat'. From their coat-pockets hang big bloated purses. Beside the first speaker a long scroll hangs from a writing-table (left): 'Post Mortem Appearances, want of Employment Poverty Starvation Quarantine Stagnation Distress Blue Ruin' [gin]. On the floor (right): 'While Drs differ & deny--The Country bleeds & patients die'. Above the principal doctor hangs a picture of a bottle (blue) emitting smoke, and with head, arms, and legs, capering menacingly. This (a symbol of humbug, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14507) is 'Contagious Cholera'. At the other end of the room (right) packing-cases are piled from floor to ceiling inscribed (reading downwards): 'A bad case' [broken]; 'Cases made on the Shortest Notice'; 'Per varios [sic] casus, per tot discrimina rerum" | Tendimus" | "By various cases & such discrimination | we get on." | Docrs Transtn --'; 'Dr Bolus Case Maker'; 'New Case' [twice]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cholera consultation
Description:
Title from text below image. Additional title above image: Cholera consultation., "A. Bird" is a pseudonym of William Henry Merle; see British Museum catalogue., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Bolus., and 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; sheet 28.1 x 43.8 cm.
Publisher:
Published by S. Knights, Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange
Subject (Topic):
Cholera, Health boards, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Physicians, and Toasting
"Four over-fed doctors carouse at a table laden with rounds of beef and decanters. Each holds up a glass and gives a toast. The man at the head of the table (left): 'Long life to our Central Board--R |. "in medio tutissimus bibis [for ibis]"--as we say in the classics'. His vis-à-vis: 'May we preserve our health by bleeding the country'. The man in back view: 'I drink Reform in our Hospitals, may they close their doors against the public & the poor die in Hackney coaches'. On the back of his chair: 'Board & Lodging'. His vis-à-vis: 'I pledge myself to keep some cases afloat'. From their coat-pockets hang big bloated purses. Beside the first speaker a long scroll hangs from a writing-table (left): 'Post Mortem Appearances, want of Employment Poverty Starvation Quarantine Stagnation Distress Blue Ruin' [gin]. On the floor (right): 'While Drs differ & deny--The Country bleeds & patients die'. Above the principal doctor hangs a picture of a bottle (blue) emitting smoke, and with head, arms, and legs, capering menacingly. This (a symbol of humbug, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14507) is 'Contagious Cholera'. At the other end of the room (right) packing-cases are piled from floor to ceiling inscribed (reading downwards): 'A bad case' [broken]; 'Cases made on the Shortest Notice'; 'Per varios [sic] casus, per tot discrimina rerum" | Tendimus" | "By various cases & such discrimination | we get on." | Docrs Transtn --'; 'Dr Bolus Case Maker'; 'New Case' [twice]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cholera consultation
Description:
Title from text below image. Additional title above image: Cholera consultation., "A. Bird" is a pseudonym of William Henry Merle; see British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Bolus.
Publisher:
Published by S. Knights, Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange
Subject (Topic):
Cholera, Health boards, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Physicians, and Toasting
Title etched below image., Early state, before plate numbering altered. For a later state numbered "274" in upper right, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 265., Publisher and date of publication from later state described in Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered "320" in upper right corner of design., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Gluttony, Eating & drinking, Food, Dining tables, Servants, Women domestics, and Dogs
"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