"Two grotesque and foolish connoisseurs standing admiring a collection of Egyptian statuary, both looking at a mummy case at left, one simpering, pointing and looking through pince-nez, the other squinting through a short spyglass; the antiquities include another mummy case, male and female statues, two sphinxes and a grotesque sculpture of a dog on a plinth decorated with hieroglyphs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 14th, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Two grotesque and foolish connoisseurs standing admiring a collection of Egyptian statuary, both looking at a mummy case at left, one simpering, pointing and looking through pince-nez, the other squinting through a short spyglass; the antiquities include another mummy case, male and female statues, two sphinxes and a grotesque sculpture of a dog on a plinth decorated with hieroglyphs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 32 x 24.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 29 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 14th, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Bound with his Turris Babel ... Amstelodami, M DC LXXIX., Interpretation of the hieroglyphics traced on two "enveloppes de momies" brought from Egypt and preserved at the Château d'Ussé in Touraine. Another edition (with imprint : Romæ, ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi) published in the same year. cf. A. de Backer, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus, 1853, 1. sér., p. 431., Printer's device on the title page with motto: Vivitur ingenio., and Signatures: +-++4A-K4 (K4 blank).
Bock, C. W. (Christoph Wilhelm), 1755-1836 printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1836]
Call Number:
Print10139
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mummification., and Donor stamp on mount.
An elderly antiquarian guides a fashionably dressed young lady and gentleman through a natural history museum, unaware that the gentleman is passing a letter to the lady. In and around the cases are exotic animals, insects, reptiles, and a mummy
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Sept. 20, 1793, by T. Prattent, 46 Cloth Fair, West Smithfield
Bock, C. W. (Christoph Wilhelm), 1755-1836 printmaker
Published / Created:
[1811].
Call Number:
Print10140
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., Sheet trimmed., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mummification., and Donor stamp on mount.
Title below image in Latin and German: Genesis Cap. L.v.2.3. Iacobus aromate conditus. ; I. Büch Mosis Cap.L.v.2.3. Der Balsamirte Jacob., Translated title supplied by curator., Place and year of publication from source volume., In margin upper right: Tab.CXIV., From: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Physica sacra, Augustae Vindelicorum & Ulmae, 1731-1735., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jacob (Biblical patriarch).
Subject (Topic):
Embalming, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medicine in the Bible, Mummies, Dead persons, Grief, Undertakers, Skeletons, and Dogs
