Poisoning the sick at Jaffa [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Poisoning the sick at Jaffa [graphic].
- Creator
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- Nov. 29, 1814.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Published by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
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"Bonaparte stands in a dispensary opening off a military hospital, conspiratorially giving orders to a slyly grinning doctor who shows him a bottle labelled 'Poison'. The general points to the hospital, separated from the dispensary by a curtain, where men, apparently moribund, lie on bedsteads. In the dispensary are jars, bottles, scales, pestle, and mortar; a small crocodile hangs from the roof (cf. British Museum Satires No. 11057). The most persistent of all 'atrocity' charges; certain plague-stricken French soldiers being given opium on the retreat from Acre in May 1799, see British Museum Satires No. 10063."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
One of thirty plates from: The life of Napoleon, a hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos. London : Printed for T. Tegg, Wm. Allason ; Edinburgh : J. Dick, 1815.
See also: W. Helfand, "The poisoning of the sick at Jaffa", Veröffentlichungen der Internat. Ges. für Geschichte der Pharmazie, neue Folge, volume 42, Wissenschaftl. Verlagsges. Stuttgart, 1975.
See further: Raymond Crawfurd, Plague and pestilence in literature and art, Oxford 1914, pages 200-211. - Provenance
- Gift of William Helfand; 1980.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 143 x 240 mm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Print00639
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Book illustrations
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) England 1814
Etchings England London 1814
Aquatints England London 1814 - Material
- etching and aquatint ; and hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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Israel.
Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel) - Subject (Name)
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821. - Subject (Topic)
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Plague
Soldiers
Poisoning
Poisons
Peste
Hospitals
Interiors
Military hospitals
Sick persons
Physicians
Mortars & pestles
Scales
Crocodiles - Subjects
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Plague
Soldiers
Poisoning
Poisons
Israel
Peste
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Hospitals
Interiors
Military hospitals
Sick persons
Physicians
Mortars & pestles
Scales
Crocodiles
Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)
England > 1814
England > London > 1814
Helfand, William H. > Donor
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
- 16204880
- Object ID (OID)
- 17339836
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