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1.
Emblems of human nature, or time's warning to all people

Published / Created:
[17--?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Time's warning to all people
Description:
Text begins: "Young and old, rich and poor, male and female, to prepare for their latter end ...
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Topic):
Death, Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)., Death (Personification)., Crucifixions, Skeletons, Spears, Hourglasses, and Scythes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Emblems of human nature, or time's warning to all people

2.
Pretre-medecin de la Terre de Feu [graphic]

Creator:
Laroque, J., 18th century, printmaker
Published / Created:
[18th century]
Call Number:
Print00433
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Prêtre-médecin de la Terre de Feu
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
J. Grasset St. Sauveur inv. direx
Subject (Geographic):
Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile).
Subject (Topic):
Traditional medicine, Indians of South America, Plants, Scythes, Priests, and Shamans
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Pretre-medecin de la Terre de Feu [graphic]

3.
Poor Robin's dream : commonly called poor charity ... to a compleat tune, well known by musicions

Published / Created:
[1750?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Poor Robin's dream commonly called poor charity to a compleat tune well known by musicions and may others call'd A game of cards
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
Printed in this preasent year
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Popish Plot, 1678, War, Dreams, Ballads, English, Economics, Depressions, Scythes, Toys, Peg legs, Hourglasses, and Children
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Poor Robin's dream : commonly called poor charity ... to a compleat tune, well known by musicions [sic] and may [sic] others call'd A game of cards

5.
Death and the woodman [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1776?]
Call Number:
776.00.00.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a rural landscape with trees in the right rear of the print, Death in the form of a skeleton stand with his scythe and reaches down to touch an elderly white-bearded woodman who has fallen in the grass. The latter points to the burden of sticks whi...
Description:
Title etched between two columns of verse in six lines each below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, publish'd as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Death, Skeletons, Scythes, Axes, Fuelwood, Woodcutting, Woodcutters, Aged persons, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Death and the woodman [graphic].

6.
Wholesome food for the ministers [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1784]
Call Number:
784.04.00.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The figure of Time, with his scythe, hovers in the air between the kneeling figures of Pitt on the left and Fox on the right. Through two pipes inscribed, "Court favor" and "popularity," he blows bubbles that Pitt catches in his mouth. Fox, his hands ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub'd by [...]
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Political elections, Scythes, Temples, Ruins, Lighthouses, Tobacco pipes, Scissors & shears, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Wholesome food for the ministers [graphic]

7.
The good man at the hour of death The bad man at the hour of death. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[between 1786 and 1791]
Call Number:
786.00.00.83
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An allegorical print with two tableaux illustrating on the right, the end of a righteous life and on the left the end of the life of a man who made wealth his object of faith. The religious man in bed surrounded by books and against the background of ...
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
Sold by C. Sheppard, No. 19 Lambeth Hill, Doctors Commons, London
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Concepts, Deathbeds, Libraries (Rooms & spaces), Scythes, Hourglasses, and Skeletons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The good man at the hour of death The bad man at the hour of death. [graphic]

8.
The sick prince [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[16 June 1787]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Prince lies in bed, 'in extremis'; Thurlow, Pitt, and Richmond stand behind a curtain (right), the first with a dagger raised to strike, Pitt clutching a dagger. On the other side of the bed Liberty with her cap and staff clasps her hands in supp...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 16, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Beds, Draperies, Daggers & swords, Liberty, Liberty cap, Time, and Scythes
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The sick prince [graphic].

9.
The torrid zone or, blessings of Jamaica / [graphic]

Creator:
Jones, Abraham, 19th century, printmaker
Published / Created:
Octr. 1, 1800.
Call Number:
Print20086
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Blessings of Jamaica
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub by Willm. Holland No.50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)., Yellow fever, Tropical medicine, Heat, Zodiac, Diseases, Scythes, Scorpions, Hourglasses, Smoking, Fans (Accessories)., Parasols, Newspapers, Colonies, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The torrid zone or, blessings of Jamaica / [graphic]

10.
Les malheurs de la vaccine [graphic].

Published / Created:
[ca. 1800]
Call Number:
Print10151
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
chez Dépeuille, Rue des Mathurins Sorbonne aux deux Pilastres d'Or
Subject (Name):
Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Smallpox, Vaccination, Smallpox vaccine, Death (Personification)., Anti-vaccination movement, Physicians, Pharmacists, Skeletons, Scythes, and Children
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Les malheurs de la vaccine [graphic].

12.
The kind of "assisted emigrant" we can not afford to admit [graphic]

Creator:
Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1883]
Call Number:
Print00656
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title printed below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Castle Garden (New York, N.Y.).
Subject (Topic):
Cholera, Emigration and immigration, Disinfection and disinfectants, Death (Personification)., Skeletons, Sailing ships, Sailors, Police, and Scythes
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The kind of "assisted emigrant" we can not afford to admit [graphic]

13.
[Drug addiction] [graphic].

Creator:
Markovsky, I., printmaker
Published / Created:
1988.
Call Number:
Poster0658
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Drug addict and me. and Наркоман и я
Description:
Title and date from item.
Publisher:
Poster Publishing House and Издательство "Плакат" Москва
Subject (Topic):
Drug addiction, Death (Personification)., Scythes, and Skeletons
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Drug addiction] [graphic]., Наркомания

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