Four images on a single plate, each separately titled below image, each with series name and sequentially numbered; each containing separate imprint statements.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1823 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
"Two designs placed side by side, the title so arranged that 'The Contrast' applies to both, the first four and last two words to the two designs respectively. [1] A scene outside Jaffa where the French flag flies from a fort on a rock at whose base a...
Alternative Title:
Contrast to English humanity
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 13, 1804, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Flags, French, Forts & fortifications, Tents, Military medicine, Sick persons, Soldiers, Physicians, Opium, Military officers, Prisoners of war, Turkish, British, Physical restraints, and Axes
A scene in a bedroom: A doctor sits in a chair opposite his patient clothed in a robe and night cap who sits in a chair beside his canoped bed. A woman in a cap stands behind the doctor's chair with a concerned look on her face. The bedroom contains ...
"John Bull, an ungainly yokel, short and stout, stands between Melville (left) and Pitt (right). Melville, wearing Highland dress, sits full face, vomiting a shower of guineas (as in British Museum Satires Nos. 10392, 10400) into a tub. Pitt, rather b...
Alternative Title:
John Bulls recipe
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by R. Rapine, Great Knaves Acre, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Vomiting, Coins, Sick persons, Books, Wash tubs, and Drinking vessels
"In a plainly furnished room a whole family suffers. An elderly 'cit' and a skinny old woman register acute discomfort. Between their chairs is a round table on which is a dish of cherries and currants. A stout maidservant (left) drinks from a bottle ...
Alternative Title:
Comforts of a hot summer
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 12th, 1881 [sic], by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Public health, Communicable diseases, Prevention, Leprosy, Diagnosis, Children, Health and hygiene, Physicians, Sick persons, Medical offices, and Fathers
Public health, Communicable diseases, Prevention, Leprosy, Patients, Injections, Hypodermic, Physicians, Sick persons, Medical offices, and Then & now comparisons
"A scene on the sea-shore. A hoven cow, that is, a cow dangerously distended by eating green food, is being operated upon by a man who stands on a raised platform and pierces her flank with a pole; in his right hand is a curved pipe for the injection ...
Alternative Title:
Wonders of Great Britain
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Engrav'd for the Whimsical Repository, Septr. 1st, 1774, publsh'd according to act of Parliament
Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910., Alexandra, Queen, consort of Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1844-1925., and Evelina Hospital for Sick Children (London, England).
Plate [156] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Cromwell's daughter lying on her sick-bed, gesturing to right at a portrait of Charles I as she exhorts her father to repentance, while he sits on the end of her bed to left, pointing to heaven, his back to the portrait"--British Museum online catalo...
Alternative Title:
Daughter of Cromwell urging him to repentance
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, and Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649,
"The Uncle, who is a sufferer from gout, is evidently a well-to-do personage; and the attentions of his relatives, who are favouring the sufferer with a visit of condolence, are, it appears, suggested by self-interest. One of the highly considerate re...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Decemr. 20, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Family members, Sick persons, Wills, and Servants
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's ...
Alternative Title:
Ague and fever
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's ...
Alternative Title:
Ague and fever
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A dying man, wearing a tattered shirt, lies stretched on a miserable bed under a casement window, through which looks Death, a skeleton holding up an hour-glass and a javelin which he points menacingly at his victim. A fat doctor (left) sits asleep a...
Alternative Title:
One too many
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Skeletons, Physicians, Undertakers, Coffins, Hourglasses, Interiors, Sick persons, Deathbeds, and Windows
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A dying man, wearing a tattered shirt, lies stretched on a miserable bed under a casement window, through which looks Death, a skeleton holding up an hour-glass and a javelin which he points menacingly at his victim. A fat doctor (left) sits asleep a...
Alternative Title:
One too many
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Skeletons, Physicians, Undertakers, Coffins, Hourglasses, Interiors, Sick persons, Deathbeds, and Windows
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A dying man, wearing a tattered shirt, lies stretched on a miserable bed under a casement window, through which looks Death, a skeleton holding up an hour-glass and a javelin which he points menacingly at his victim. A fat doctor (left) sits asleep a...
Alternative Title:
One too many
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Skeletons, Physicians, Undertakers, Coffins, Hourglasses, Interiors, Sick persons, Deathbeds, and Windows
"An aged and moribund woman (three-quarter length) sits in an arm-chair directed to the left. A doctor, stout, middle-aged, and sensual, holds her wrist, while putting his arm round a buxom young woman who leans on the back of the chair. They gaze int...
Alternative Title:
Doctor Doubledose killing two birds with one stone
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 20, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"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
Three doctors stand together in discussion, wearing wigs and tailcoats. The man on the right holds a wine glass; bottles and additional glasses sit on a table behind him. In the background on the left the patient can be seen, lying in a canopy bed
Description:
Title and date supplied by curator.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Discussion, Sick persons, and Canopy beds
Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886., Edmunds, George F. 1828-1919. (George Franklin),, Voorhees, Daniel W. 1827-1897. (Daniel Wolsey),, Miller, John Franklin, 1831-1886., Mahone, William, 1826-1895., Cameron, J. D. 1833-1918. (James Donald),, Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904., Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902., Sherman, John, 1823-1900., Bayard, Thomas F. 1828-1898. (Thomas Francis),, Vest, George Graham, 1830-1904., Jones, John P. 1829-1912. (John Percival),, Davis, David, 1815-1886., and United States. Congress. Senate.
Subject (Topic):
Fever, Quinine, Politicians, Legislators, Sick persons, Infectious disease, Medicines, Thermometers, Basins (Containers)., and Politics and government
Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886., Edmunds, George F. 1828-1919. (George Franklin),, Voorhees, Daniel W. 1827-1897. (Daniel Wolsey),, Miller, John Franklin, 1831-1886., Mahone, William, 1826-1895., Cameron, J. D. 1833-1918. (James Donald),, Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904., Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902., Sherman, John, 1823-1900., Bayard, Thomas F. 1828-1898. (Thomas Francis),, Vest, George Graham, 1830-1904., Jones, John P. 1829-1912. (John Percival),, Davis, David, 1815-1886., and United States. Congress. Senate.
Subject (Topic):
Fever, Quinine, Politicians, Legislators, Sick persons, Infectious disease, Medicines, Thermometers, Basins (Containers)., and Politics and government
In an elegantly furnished sitting room, a man sits at a table in a dressing gown and night cap, his tongue hanging out of his mouth and his gouty leg resting on a foot stool as his pulse is taken by a physician (right). The physician looks at a pocke...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 22d, 1784, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Pulse, Cats, Chimneypieces, Clocks & watches, Dogs, Health care, Maps, Physicians, Pictures, Rugs, Sick persons, and Staffs (Sticks)
In an elegantly furnished sitting room, a man sits at a table in a dressing gown and night cap, his tongue hanging out of his mouth and his gouty leg resting on a foot stool as his pulse is taken by a physician (right). The physician looks at a pocke...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 22d, 1784, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Pulse, Cats, Chimneypieces, Clocks & watches, Dogs, Health care, Maps, Physicians, Pictures, Rugs, Sick persons, and Staffs (Sticks)
"An elderly invalid sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, looking down, with gaping mouth and face distorted with terror. Round him dance in a circle, holding hands, seven grotesque little naked demons, one wearing large jack-boots. On a round ...
"An elderly invalid sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, looking down, with gaping mouth and face distorted with terror. Round him dance in a circle, holding hands, seven grotesque little naked demons, one wearing large jack-boots. On a round ...
History, Health aspects, Nurses, United States Sanitary Commission, Nuns as nurses, Military medicine, Soldiers, Battlefields, Hospital wards, Sick persons, Families, Fairs, Parlors, and Sewing