publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 7, 1771.
Call Number:
771.03.07.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two ballad singers, one of them standing on top of an overturned large basket, are singing to a small but pleased-looking crowd by the entrance to an inn. A child standing in front of the basket is reaching up to offer the singer a coin
"O'Connell (unrecognizable) marches jauntily to a door on the extreme right, over which is a board inscribed 'St Ste[phens] To Trespassers Men-Traps--Constantly Set--Beware'; he is followed by an Irish mob, yelling and flourishing shillelaghs. He wears barrister's wig and gown with a mitre-shaped cap decorated with a cross, shamrock, and bells (emblem of folly). Under his right arm is a large book inscribed '1 & 2'; his left hand rests on a stout stick. His gown is held up by a ragamuffin and the procession is headed by a bloated priest who holds up on a bludgeon a placard: 'Unconditional Emancipation O C For Ever'; this is surmounted with shamrock. The crowd are evidently from St. Giles and similar Irish slums in London; two carry hods, emblem of the Irish builder's labourer or hodman. On the extreme left in the foreground is an Irish basket-woman, holding her basket, smoking a short pipe; she shouts 'Stop wid ye now--are ye goin to lave the ladies behind--ye blackguards.' She is barefooted, very ragged, and wears a soldier's jacket (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15721). See British Museum Satires No. 15759, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... wher [sic] political and other caricaturs [sic] are daily pub., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 31 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847 and St. Stephen's Chapel (Westminster, London, England),
"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
