"An imitation of British Museum Satires No. 8913, by Woodward. A fat parson sits drinking beside a small round table. His face is fiery and carbuncled. He wears gown and bands, with unbuttoned waistcoast, and ungartered stocking; his wig is back to front. Opposite him, on a round stool sits Care, a naked man, grotesque, aged, emaciated, with a scraggy beard and long grey hair, and talons on hands and feet; he registers gloomy terror. The parson, with a contemptuous smile, snaps his fingers at Care. On the table are decanter, pipe, tobacco-box, and lemon. On the wall (left) is a 'List of the Tythes for the Parish of Guttledown'. A patterned carpet completes the design. An illustration of the song (illustrated also by R. Cruikshank in 'The Universal Songster', ii, 1826, page 129)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Depression -- Songs., 1 print : etching with engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 208 x 250 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publishd. June 16th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Alcoholic beverages, Pipes (Smoking), and Lemons
"Two jovial old pensioners sit together on a bench, smoking and gesticulating. The sailor (left) holds a frothing tankard, and raises his pipe above his head; his wooden leg extends stiffly. The soldier turns his head in profile to the left, gesticulating with his right hand; he has lost his left arm. Both are neatly dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Descriptions of battles by sea and land
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: wooden leg -- Greenwich Hospital pensioner -- Chelsea Hospital pensioner -- Pensioners., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prostheses -- Greenwich Hospitals -- Chelsea Hospital., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 223 x 172 mm.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
"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 tractor) causing flames to gush from nose and nostrils. On a small table (left) are a decanter of 'Brandy' with a jug and steaming glass, lemon, and sugar, the patient's pipe lying across a newspaper: 'The True Briton. Theatre Dead Alive. Grand Exhibition in Leicester Square, just arrived from America the Rod of Æsculapius. Perkinism in all its Glory - being a certain Cure for all Disorders, Red Noses, Gouty Toes, Windy Bowels, Broken Legs, Hump Backs. Just discover'd, the Grand Secret of the Philosopher's Stone with the True way of turning all Metals into Gold, pro bono publico.' On the wall (right) is a picture of an infant Bacchus, astride a cask, holding out a decanter and a glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Metallic tractors -- Perkins, Elisha., 1 print : etching and aquatint with engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 24.4 x 31.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
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
"The invalid, unshaven, in a nightcap, and wearing a dressing-gown over unfastened waistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings, stands as in British Museum Satires No. 9584, grimacing with disgust at a cup of medicine, the bottle in his left hand. In place of the fireplace is a table on which are medicine bottles, pill-box, and a small case inscribed 'Tractors', see British Museum Satires No. 9761. Behind him is a commode. A strip of bed-curtain appears on the extreme right. A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 9805. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 10304, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., An imitation of Gillray's print of the same title; cf. No. 9584 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Physic -- Medicine bottles -- Pill boxes -- Close stools., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives -- Toilet facilities., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 31.5 x 22.0 cm.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Laxatives, Tractors, Metallic, Medicines, Medical procedures & techniques, and Sick persons
An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money and "A lean and sour-looking apothecary kneels in profile to the left at a stuffed high-backed elbow-chair, his tricorne hat and gold-headed cane beside him. Behind him (right) are a huge pestle and mortar standing on a block. He prays to 'mighty Esculapius!' to send 'a few smart. Fevers and some obstinate Catarrhs', calls down curses on the 'new-invented waterproof (the earliest instance of the word in the 'O.E.D.' is an advertisement of Jan. 1799), asks for compassion to his book of bad debts, and pins his hopes on the squire's lady having an heir which he may 'bring handsomely into the world ...'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Nineteen lines of letterpress text below title: O mighty Esculapius! hear a poor little man overwhelm'd with misfortunes ..., and One of a series of broadsides. For information on the series, see page 51 in v. 8. of the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30 July 1801 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand and Spragg, printer, 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden
"In a plainly furnished room a whole family suffers. An elderly 'cit' and a skinny old woman register acute discomfort. Between their chairs is a round table on which is a dish of cherries and currants. A stout maidservant (left) drinks from a bottle she has taken from a store-cupboard. A little boy, a cat, and a dog are afflicted. A door opens into a bedroom (right) where a little girl relieves herself; another tries to kick her from her seat. On the wall are three shelves of books, among them 'Family Bible' and 'Family Phisician'. A magpie is in a wicker cage."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Comforts of a hot summer
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Probably etched after a design by G.M. Woodward. For a drawing by Woodward of a similar scene, see Yale Medical Library call number: Print00232., Year of publication suggested in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Publisher's advertisement following title: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 12th, 1881 [sic], by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Doctor Rock (Richard Rock 1690-1777) was an itinerant medicine vendor who frequented the London areas of St. Pauls and Covent Garden. He was famous for his "anti-venereal, grand, specifick pill". He was satirised in several caricatures: W. Hogarth represented him in A harlot's progress pl. V; The march to Finchley; and The four times of the day, morning and "A fashionably-dressed man kneels in profile to the left at a large chest of 'Patent Medecines', on which is a duck with the inscription 'Quack. Quack. Quack' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 5766]. A hanging candelabra and a festooned curtain indicate wealth. He prays to the shade of Dr. Rock, describes the composition of his famous Vegetable Drops, and asks for the continuance of 'my Carriages and Equipage, my Town and Country Residence, and all other good things of this life ...'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Publisher from imprints present on other plates in the series. For information on the series, see page 51 in v. 8. of the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Date of publication from Grego., and Twenty-one lines of letterpress text below title: Illustrious shade of the renowned Dr. Rock, still continue, I beseech thee ...
Publisher:
R. Ackermann and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Rock, Richard, 1690-1777 and Doctor Botherum.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Selling, Drugs, Medicine, Chests, Ducks, Costume, Candelabra, Draperies, Prayer, Quacks, and Patent medicines
