"A broadside satirising a quack in London; with an engraving showing a street scene, a varied crowd of people surrounding "Waltho Van Claturbank, High German Doctor", on horseback, offering packages of remedies; behind him is his zany or fool, also on horseback; among the crowd are a number of children, including boy with a monkey, and two women selling fruit, one from a wheelbarrow the other from a basket on her head; with ... text in three columns; late impression of a print first published in 1713."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker from statement of responsibility "T. Slater sculp." on original issue of the print, which also bore the title "Pharmacopola circumforaneus, or, The horse doctor's harangue to [the] credulous mob" that is not present of this reissue; cf. Wellcome Collection online catalogue, reference: 575019i., "The plate would have been published by T Harrison in 1713 (information from Malcolm Jones based on impressions in the Wellcome Institute and Library of Congress) and later acquired by John Bowles who was in business from 1729; this impression was published after his son Carington Bowles went into business in St Pauls Church Yard c. 1766."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.13211., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Three columns of engraved text beneath image, printed from a separate plate: Gentlemen, I Waltho Van Claturbank, High German doctor, chymist & dentifricator ...
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Claturbank, Waltho van, pseud.,
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Quacks, Fools & jesters, Medicines, Crowds, Peddlers, Wheelbarrows, Baskets, Fruit, and Monkeys
Volume 2, page 91. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two women walk holding the ends of a stick stretched between them, from which a large basket loaded with grapes is suspended. A young girl walks to the left of them, absorbed in the bunch of grapes she holds in front of her face. Greenery and a distant village are seen in the background
Alternative Title:
Carrying grapes
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 91 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20, 1795, by W. Dickinson, No. 53 Piccadilly
Volume 2, page 91. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A woman walks between two children, her left hand grasping one handle of a basket laden with flowers while the young girl walking beside her grasps the other handle with both hands. She looks down to the left at the boy walking on her right side; he balances a basket of fish on his head. Grass is seen on the path in the foreground; a tower is visible in the background
Alternative Title:
Carrying flowers
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 91 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20, 1795, by W. Dickinson, No. 53 Piccadilly
Page 180. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist's name and date written in ink on verso, in a contemporary hand., Two small decorative designs in ink, on separate sheets, are mounted above and below drawing., and Mounted on page 180 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
