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1. Winding up of the medical report of the Walcheren expedition [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 March 1810]
- Call Number:
- Print00207
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "In the centre of the design a double pillory is raised on a post, the feet of two victims resting on a beam inscribed 'Medical Board'. Both are confined at neck and wrists; a broad scroll inscribed 'Look Ass Peeps' [Lucas Pepys] hangs between them; one (left), in quasi-military dress, is evidently Thomas Keate, the Surgeon-General; the other, dressed as an old-fashioned physician, is Pepys. Below the pillory is a man on a braying ass, looking up triumphantly at its occupants; he is 'A Jacks-son', evidently Robert Jackson, M.D. In the foreground are four dead or dying soldiers (in neat and spotless uniform), 'Sent home for Inspection'; a man supports the head of one, another clutches a bundle inscribed '48 Regiment'. The flat grass on which they lie is flanked by medical stores, &c. On the left the gable-end of a rustic inn projects into the design with a sign on which is a goose [Chatham, see British Museum Satires Nos. 11549, 11564]; over the door is a placard: 'A Goose Cured here'. Beside it are a cask of 'Porter' and a large chest marked with a broad arrow and inscribed 'Medical Store[s] Inspectors Hospital Walcheren'; on this stand a basket of 'Surgeons Instruments' and a canister of 'Vitriol'; beside it is a canister inscribed 'Powder of Rotten Post'. Other stores are: bales of 'Cobwebs' and 'Oak Bark'; a cask inscribed 'Tincture of Arsenic Walcheren'; an open medicine-chest inscribed 'Candle Snuff & Cobwebs, charms for the Cure of Agues'; bottles of 'Gin'; a jar of 'James's Powder', and a bowl of 'Opium'. On the opposite side of the design are many closely stacked barrels, all inscribed 'TK' [Thomas Keate], of 'Port', 'Claret', and 'Burgundy', inscribed 'For the Hospital', 'For Home Consumption', and 'York Hospital'. In front of these is a large 'Champaign Chest' inscribed 'Chelsea Hospita[l]', and a turtle inscribed 'T K'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Publisher from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Medical boards -- Drugs -- Dr. James' Fever Powder -- Chelsea Hospital -- Walcheren Campaign., and With contemporary annotation in ink at bottom of image: Price one shilling cold.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 30th, 1810, by T. [Tegg]
- Subject (Name):
- Keate, Thomas, 1745-1821, Pepys, Lucas, Sir, 1742-1830, Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827, Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827., Keate, Thomas, 1745-1821., Pepys, Lucas, Sir, 1742-1830., and Walcheren Expedition (1809)
- Subject (Topic):
- Walcheren Expedition, 1809, Soldiers, Medical supplies, Medicine, Military, and Patent medicines
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Winding up of the medical report of the Walcheren expedition [graphic].