"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
Title supplied by curator., 20th century restrike, original block on 16th century paper., Attributed to Calcar., Title page from: Andreas Vesalius, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Basel: Oporinus, 1543., From the Workshop of Titian., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and See: Cushing, Harvey. A Bio-Bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, New York: Schuman's, 1943. VI-A-1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564,
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Human dissection, Medical education, Physicians, Dead persons, Audiences, Skeletons, Monkeys, and Dogs
Title devised by curator., Signed in white at bottom right., Date of production devised by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Geographic):
Indonesia.
Subject (Topic):
Hinduism, Death, Monkeys, Sick persons, Prayer, and Balinese (Indonesian people)
