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1. Dropsy courting Consumption [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [25 October 1810]
- Call Number:
- Print00265
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An obese man and a tall lean woman, symbolical figures of 'dropsy' and 'consumption', flirting outside a mausoleum; another couple promenade before a statue of Hercules in the background and "A grotesquely obese man (his hat placed under his plump knees) kneels at the feet of an ugly and bedizened woman, fantastically lean and tall. She holds up a fan, and looks down alluringly at her lover to whom she gives her left hand. They are in the circular portico of a 'Mausoleum' (right). In the background is an avenue and a statue of Hercules, towards which a fat woman and a lean parson of the Dr. Syntax type are walking arm-in-arm. The muscular Hercules is contrasted with the four other types of physique represented."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "Price one shilling coloured.", and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dropsy -- Consumption.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. October 25th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Hercules (Roman mythological character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Tuberculosis, Ascites, Costume, Courtship, Obesity, Edema, Sculpture, Fans (Accessories), Clergy, Covered walks, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Dropsy courting Consumption [graphic]
2. Hercules de Farnese [graphic]
- Creator:
- Thomassin, S. (Simon), 1652?-1732, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1732?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Depiction of the copy at the Palace of Versailles of the sculpture known as the Farnese Hercules. The figure stands on a pedestal, leaning on a club covered with lion-skin, his right hand behind his back
- Description:
- Title etched within pedestal at bottom of image., Place of publication based on printmaker's city of activity; date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "30" in upper right corner., Mounted on page 136 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hercules (Roman mythological character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hercules de Farnese [graphic]
