"A glutton lies in bed, asleep, assailed by the fish, flesh, and fowl of a City dinner. A huge turtle is on top of him, a lobster pinches his nose, a pheasant swoops to peck an eye. He holds in each hand a bottle labelled 'Wrights Cham[pagne]' [see Br...
Alternative Title:
Lord Mayor's Day nightmare and Fatal effects of gluttony
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Printed by C. Motte, 23 Leicester Sqre
Subject (Topic):
Gluttony, Nightmares, Beds, Animals, and Champagne (Wine)
A midwife holds out a newborn child, who exhibits a combination its parents' physical traits: the nose of its mother, who lies in bed, and the hook arm, peg leg, glasses and queue of its father, who stands proudly at the foot of the bed. The midwife e...
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The patient lies in a large bed (right), sourly watching four ugly doctors (left) who sit in consultation, their knees close together. Two put old-fashioned gold-headed canes to their mouths. They say respectively: "We must throw in the Bark" [quinin...
Alternative Title:
Consultation of doctors on the case of Sir Toby Bumper
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Alcohol, Fever, Quinine, Physicians, Staffs (Sticks), Beds, and Sick persons
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The patient lies in a large bed (right), sourly watching four ugly doctors (left) who sit in consultation, their knees close together. Two put old-fashioned gold-headed canes to their mouths. They say respectively: "We must throw in the Bark" [quinin...
Alternative Title:
Consultation of doctors on the case of Sir Toby Bumper
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Alcohol, Fever, Quinine, Physicians, Staffs (Sticks), Beds, and Sick persons
A copy in reverse of William Hogarth's Plate 5 of A harlot's progress: In a squalid room Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies. Her serving-woman reaches out to them ...
Alternative Title:
Harlot's progress. Plate 5, In a high salivation at the point of death, and Elle meurt en passant par le grand-reméde
Description:
Title in English and French engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Misaubin, Jean, 1673-1734. and Rock, Richard, 1690-1777.
"In an ornate foreshortened bed which is the centre of the design, propped against a frilled pillow, is a lady, dismayed at the sight of a grotesque infant which a nurse (right) holds out to her. Her husband (left) is a grotesque dandy, wearing a smal...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Harrisson Isaccs [sic], Charles St., Soho Square
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Eyeglasses, Fireplaces, Governesses, Infants, Monocles, and Servants
"Below the title: '"Why who the Devil have we got here!! - It is only me Massa.' A man starts up in bed clutching the bed-curtain, staring round in horror at a black woman beside him, who grins at him, her right. hand on his right. shoulder. Her appea...
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's ...
Alternative Title:
Ague and fever
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's ...
Alternative Title:
Ague and fever
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
A sleeping man on his back in a bed, is attached to a machine that is undressing him, pulling his pants off and his arms out of his sleeves, as other parts of the machine prepare to pull his nightcap and sleeping shirt over his head
Alternative Title:
Apparatus to undress and cover up when sleepy
Description:
Ttitle etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by J. Netherclift
Subject (Topic):
Automation, Beds, Machinery, Sleepwear, and Undressing
"Heading to printed verses: 'A Burlesque Ballad* - Tune "Billy Taylor was a brisk young Fellow". A man and woman in bed in an attic. A figure, draped in a sheet, stands at the foot of the bed, holding up a lantern. The man reaches for his wooden leg w...
Alternative Title:
Downfall of Miss Nancy Wiggins and Dicky Day, the cruel cobbler
Description:
Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 18, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The Prince of Wales lies on his bed, partly dressed, in a drunken stupor, head downwards, right arm hanging to the ground, where are broken bottles and spilt wine. The ghost of his great-uncle, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65), immensel...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Drinking vessels, Ghosts, Hourglasses, Intoxication, and Obesity
"The Prince of Wales lies on his bed, partly dressed, in a drunken stupor, head downwards, right arm hanging to the ground, where are broken bottles and spilt wine. The ghost of his great-uncle, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65), immensel...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Drinking vessels, Ghosts, Hourglasses, Intoxication, and Obesity
"A young woman sits up in bed to pull the nose of a fat 'cit' who sits beside her, putting her left arm round his neck. His hat and stick lie on the ground. Behind (right) a young man in his shirt, wearing his hat and carrying shoes and coat, &c, slip...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published 1st May, 1790, by Robt. Sayer, Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Beds, Floor coverings, Spouses, and Staffs (Sticks)
"Interior of one of the rooms of the lying-in hospital, in Marylebone; women lie in beds around edge of room, as nurses attend to them; a fire on the left; and a group of people consulting in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Novr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Great Britain., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Middlesex Hospital,
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Obstetrics, Nurses, Hospital wards, Maternity hospitals, Health care facilities, Interiors, Beds, and Fireplaces
"Interior of one of the rooms of the lying-in hospital, in Marylebone; women lie in beds around edge of room, as nurses attend to them; a fire on the left; and a group of people consulting in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Novr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Great Britain., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Middlesex Hospital,
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Obstetrics, Nurses, Hospital wards, Maternity hospitals, Health care facilities, Interiors, Beds, and Fireplaces
"Interior of one of the rooms of the lying-in hospital, in Marylebone; women lie in beds around edge of room, as nurses attend to them; a fire on the left; and a group of people consulting in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Novr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Great Britain., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Middlesex Hospital,
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Obstetrics, Nurses, Hospital wards, Maternity hospitals, Health care facilities, Interiors, Beds, and Fireplaces
Satire on the dispute between John Hill and Mountfort Brown showing Hill in his bed apparently feigning illness to avoid appearing in court after charging Brown with assault
"Satire on the dispute between John Hill and Mountfort Brown (see British Museum Satires No. 3183) showing Hill apparently feigning illness to avoid appearing in court after charging Brown with assault"--British Museum online catalogue
Lady Conyngham sits at a table in front of a fireplace, quill pen in hand, writing a letter by candlelight; her large figure is exaggerated and her legs are spread far apart, causing her nightgown to billow. A clock sits on the mantle in front of her....
Alternative Title:
Expanded sentiments of Liddy Cunning-game
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[October 1807]
Call Number:
807.10.00.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
From her bed with bed curtains, an ill-looking woman with an imploring look on her face from her bed reaches for her nurse who is asleep in an armchair with her back to her patient and her feet on a cushion. She is very fat and coarse looking as she ...
Alternative Title:
While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Medicines, Nurses, Accidents, and Sick persons
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[October 1807]
Call Number:
Print00209
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
From her bed with bed curtains, an ill-looking woman with an imploring look on her face from her bed reaches for her nurse who is asleep in an armchair with her back to her patient and her feet on a cushion. She is very fat and coarse looking as she ...
Alternative Title:
While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Medicines, Nurses, Accidents, and Sick persons
A man lies on his side in his bed beside his wife who facing the viewer, both in night caps, and lying against pillows. Only their heads are visible above the covers. Below title: "Caudle, you shan't close your eyes for a week-no you shan't-unless you...
"The King, dead drunk and much dishevelled, is carried to bed by three fat and tipsy peeresses, wearing coronets; the foremost, who supports his legs, probably Lady Conyngham (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13847), says: "I'm as great as the Queen." T...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 12, 1820, by John Marshall Junr
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
"The King, dead drunk and much dishevelled, is carried to bed by three fat and tipsy peeresses, wearing coronets; the foremost, who supports his legs, probably Lady Conyngham (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13847), says: "I'm as great as the Queen." T...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 12, 1820, by John Marshall Junr
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
"A broadside satirising the fall of James II; with an etching formerly attributed to de Hooghe. King James (1) lies in an ornate bed, wearing a Jesuit's cap encircled by a crown, vomiting a stream of reptiles with crowns, papal tiaras, cardinals' hat...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
James II, King of England, 1633-1701, Mary, of Modena, Queen, consort of James II, King of England, 1658-1718, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, and Petre, Edward, 1631-1699
"A low platform covered with roses extends almost across the design; from this bed new Ministers advancing from the left are ejecting the old. Roses are scattered on the floor. The central figure is the tall and handsome Castlereagh, author of the phr...
Alternative Title:
Retaking the bed of roses by storm!!
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, and Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Beds, Roses, Draperies, and Fighting
"Ministers recline on a large low platform, representing a magnificent state bed, which is completely covered with roses. It recedes in perspective from left to right. On the left is Fox, looking sourly over his left shoulder at his neighbour, Sherida...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1806 by Walker, 7 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822., and Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Beds, Roses, and Draperies
British caricature showing bishop and other men around table toasting to looking out for themselves, regardless of justice. The Prince Regent? of England arises saying, "By holy Paul--shadows to night have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, th...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published October 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
May 8th, 1841.
Call Number:
841.05.08.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills."--Wellcome Collection online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Sqre and Printed by S. L[ingham], Grays Inn Road
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
May 8th, 1841.
Call Number:
Print00282
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills."--Wellcome Collection online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Sqre and Printed by S. L[ingham], Grays Inn Road
