"A drinking scene; a drunken man carousing with two women, raising a glass into which Death, a crowned skeleton standing behind him, pours a liquid from a small bottle, a great quantity of steam or smoke rising off; one of the women lies asleep on the floor in front of the table, breasts exposed and a spilling glass in her hand, the other is falling off her chair at left, horrified, having spied Death; a dog and discarded flagon at lower left, a caged bird hanging from the ceiling, barrels of 'Old Tom' behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 55 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification)., Alcoholism, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Poisons, Skeletons, Birdcages, Birds, Dogs, Loss of consciousness, Eating & drinking, and Barrels
"The friends of 'Nap' are Death, a skeleton, the Devil, a monster with webbed wings and barbed tail, and Joseph Bonaparte. They sit drinking at an oblong table, Death at the head (right), facing Joseph, and with Napoleon on his right, the Devil on his left seated on a stool. Napoleon stands in profile to the left, giving a toast, "Come Gentlemen - here is Success to Plunder and Massacre." Death and the Devil prepare to drink, but Joseph sits glumly, his elbows on the table, supporting his chin on his fists. On the table are decanters, one labelled 'Champagne'. Behind Napoleon's head hangs a 'View of Malmaison' with tiny foreground figures: the Devil and Napoleon clasping hands."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Four columns of verse etched below title; the leftmost column has the heading "I. Nap" and begins: These Spaniards are terrible rogues, they will not submit to my fetters ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 1st, 1808, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844
An illustration to Smollett's Adventures of Roderick Random: Inside Surgeons Hall, the scene showing doctors around a table on which lies a skull. On the walls, placards wtih describing fees and another "Corporation of Surgeons"; on the left hands a skeleton
Description:
Title etched below image., Lower right corner: Vide Roderick Random, Vol. I, Chap. XVII., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 28.6 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 29.7 x 36.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermanns, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Smollett, T. 1721-1771. (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Medical education, Physicians, Signs (Notices), Skeletons, and Skulls
"An aged surgeon leans over a bag of instruments on a table (right), selecting a knife; he wears an old-fashioned wig, hat, coat, &c. A pretty girl seizes him by the arm; she shouts at him, pointing behind her to his subject, a young man lying on a trestle-table, fully dressed and apparently in perfect health, who has just wakened, horrified. In an open cupboard stands a skeleton (left). On the wall is a notice: 'A Course of Anatomical Lectures accompanied with Dissections will be delivered tommorrow Even[ing] by Professer Sawbone.' [An early use of the word 'Sawbone'. Partridge gives the date as from c. 1835, citing Sam Weller in 'Pickwick' (1837).] Two lighted candles stand on the table. On the lintel of the door is a bust of (?) Hippocrates frowning down at the scene."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Price one shilling.", Plate numbered "60" in upper right corner., Watermark: R & T., and Mounted on leaf 48 of volume 11 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Eyeglasses, Medical equipment & supplies, and Skeletons
"The patient sits in an armchair in profile to the left, in the centre of a well-furnished room. He wears dressing-gown and nightcap, his arms are folded and he stares fixedly, assailed by ghostly visions which float before his eyes, emerging from smoke-like shadows: a skeleton, Death, poised just above him, raises his arrow to smite. A corpse-like half length figure offers him a pistol and a halter. A spectre with webbed wings holds out a cup. Two staring and decapitated heads glare from the shadows which fill the room. A hand raises a sword; a man with a knife is about to be stung by a serpent. A naked body (half length) falls head downwards. Above these spectres is a man (left) driving a hearse (right to left) at full gallop and looking round at the Hypochondriac. Behind the patient a good-looking woman speaks confidentially to a doctor who meditatively sucks his cane. He is dressed in an old-fashioned manner, wearing a tie-wig. A table covered with medicines stands behind the patient, who seems unconscious of the other two. A money-chest beside him suggests that he is miserly. Two landscapes hang on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of a print published in 1788 by T. Rowlandson. Cf. No. 7449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Ague & fever., Nine lines of verse etched below image, on either side of title: The mind distemper'd - say, what potent charm, Can Fancy's spectre - brooding rage disarm? ..., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & Devils -- Skeleton as death., Imprint statement partially erased from sheet., and Mounted on leaf 48 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Hypochondria, Depression, Mental, Suicide, Skeletons, Hearses, Demons, Daggers & swords, Handguns, Physicians, Staffs (Sticks), and Medicines
