The guide to health, or, Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- The guide to health, or, Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians
- Creator
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1810]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
- Abstract
-
Three fashionable dressed men stand to the left consulting with a man in his nightshirt and cap who addresses them from his bed. At the foot of the bed are three wigs on stands. An elder woman in a cap opens the curtains on the window to the right
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.8.140.
Six lines of text, labeled "anecdode [sic] of Bl. Thornton," following curly bracket after title: Addison very humourasly [sic] compared physicians to an army of antient Britons ...
Plate numbered "307" in the upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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 ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 6 in volume 5. - Provenance
- Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 26 x 36 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
- Collection Title
- V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1810
Etchings England London 1810
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Thornton, Bonnell, 1724-1768
- Subject (Topic)
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Bedrooms
Canopy beds
Physicians
Rugs
Sleepwear
Wigs
Staffs (Sticks) - Subjects
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Thornton, Bonnell, 1724-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bedrooms
Canopy beds
Physicians
Rugs
Sleepwear
Wigs
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1810
England > London > 1810
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
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
- 9212669
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192812
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