"An apothecary's shop, the walls covered by jars closely ranged on shelves, a stuffed fish hanging from the ceiling. Behind a curtain (right) Death, wearing an apron, pounds at a mortar of 'slow Poison', looking gleefully in a mirror to watch the cust...
Alternative Title:
I have a secret art to cure each malady, which men endure
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1- 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Quacks and quackery, Skeletons, Interiors, Drugstores, Pharmacists, Mortars & pestles, Sick persons, Medicines, Shelving, Containers, and Mirrors
"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...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
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
