The Devonshire method to restore a lost member [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- The Devonshire method to restore a lost member [graphic].
- Published / Created
- [14 April 1784]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. April 14, 1784, by G. Jackson, No. 21 Great Russell St., Covent Garden
- Abstract
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"The interior of the shop of an apothecary or quack medicine vendor. Three persons have entered (left): the Duchess of Devonshire stands full-face offering the apothecary (right) a purse, while she holds out her right hand to Fox who stands beside and slightly behind her. She says, "His Tail restore, You shall have more". The apothecary, standing in profile to the left, takes the purse saying, "My Famous Pills cure many Ills". He is well dressed and wears a doctor's tie-wig. Fox puts his left hand to his forehead with a distressed expression; under his foot is a paper inscribed 'Dr Leakes Antivanerial Drops'. A lady standing behind Fox, her hands in a muff, says, "Oh poor Fox will Loose fits tail". Behind the apothecary is the shop-window with a counter in front of it. On the counter are two small phials, each labelled Mr Fox, and a pill-box, besides glass jars. In the window are displayed glass bottles of various shapes filled with coloured liquids. (Advertisements of Dr. Leake's pills and drops were frequent in the newspapers and were posted as bills, cf. BMSat 6540.) The duchess wears a 'Fox' favour in her hat which is trimmed with a fox's brush and three ostrich feathers, worn as an emblem of the interest taken by the Prince of Wales in the election. 'Westminster Election', p. 327. Her companion wears a fox's brush in her hat.."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description
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Title etched below image.
State with publisher's name and street number present. For a variant state with that text burnished from plate, see no. 6530 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Plate mark partially trimmed on top and left side.
Temporary local subject terms: Interior view of an apothecary shop -- Dr. Leake's pills -- Bills -- Venereal diseases -- Election emblems -- Leake, Walter, fl. 1772.
Countermark in center of sheet: Taylor.
Mounted to 29 x 39 cm. - Provenance
- Peter Murray Hill; February 1959;
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 245 x 351 mm, on sheet 26 x 36 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 784.04.14.01.1+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Etchings England London 1784 - Material
- etching with stipple ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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England
London. - Subject (Name)
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Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Leake, John, 1729-1792
Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821
Great Britain. Parliament - Subject (Topic)
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Elections, 1784
Canvassing
Interiors
Quacks
Medicines
Pharmacists
Political elections
Sexually transmitted diseases - Subjects
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Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Leake, John, 1729-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain. Parliament > Elections, 1784
Canvassing > England > London
Interiors
Quacks
Medicines
Pharmacists
Political elections > England > London
Sexually transmitted diseases
England > 1784
England > London > 1784
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7634054
- Object ID (OID)
- 10727779