The quack doctor's prayer!! [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The quack doctor's prayer!! [graphic]
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
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Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Spragg, E. active 1794-1850, printer.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University). - Published / Created
- [30 July 1801]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- R. Ackermann and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden
- Abstract
-
A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Doctor Rock (Richard Rock 1690-1777) was an itinerant medicine vendor who frequented the London areas of St. Pauls and Covent Garden. He was famous for his "anti-venereal, grand, specifick pill". He was satirised in several caricatures: W. Hogarth represented him in A harlot's progress pl. V; The march to Finchley; and The four times of the day, morning
"A fashionably-dressed man kneels in profile to the left at a large chest of 'Patent Medecines', on which is a duck with the inscription 'Quack. Quack. Quack' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 5766]. A hanging candelabra and a festooned curtain indicate wealth. He prays to the shade of Dr. Rock, describes the composition of his famous Vegetable Drops, and asks for the continuance of 'my Carriages and Equipage, my Town and Country Residence, and all other good things of this life ...'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title printed in letterpress below image.
Publisher from imprints present on other plates in the series. For information on the series, see page 51 in v. 8. of the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Date of publication from Grego.
Twenty-one lines of letterpress text below title: Illustrious shade of the renowned Dr. Rock, still continue, I beseech thee ... - Provenance
- Clements C. Fry.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 200 x 250 mm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Print10020
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Broadsides
Caricatures
Etchings England London 1801 - Material
- etching ; and hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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Great Britain
Great Britain. - Subject (Name)
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Rock, Richard, 1690-1777
Doctor Botherum. - Subject (Topic)
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Quacks and quackery
Selling
Drugs
Medicine
Chests
Ducks
Costume
Candelabra
Draperies
Prayer
Quacks
Patent medicines - Subjects
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Rock, Richard, 1690-1777 > Caricatures and cartoons
Doctor Botherum
Quacks and quackery
Selling > Drugs
Medicine
Chests
Ducks
Costume > Great Britain > 19th century
Candelabra
Draperies
Costume
Prayer
Quacks
Patent medicines
Great Britain
England > London > 1801
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
- 16058937
- Object ID (OID)
- 17339578
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