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1. Miseries of human life [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [October 1807]
- Call Number:
- Print00209
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- From her bed with bed curtains, an ill-looking woman with an imploring look on her face from her bed reaches for her nurse who is asleep in an armchair with her back to her patient and her feet on a cushion. She is very fat and coarse looking as she sits in front of a fire. The candle stick has fallen from the table and lies unobserved smoking on the floor at her feet, the snuffer also on the floor beside a cat who grabs the food from a plate that has also fallen to the floor. The table by the nurse's elbow holds medicine bottles as well as dishware. More medicine bottles are on the mantel and at her feet. A pot warms over the fire
- Alternative Title:
- While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Five lines of text below title: While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse, who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort, leaves your door wide open, stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 32.3 x 23.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published Octr. 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Medicines, Nurses, Accidents, and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Miseries of human life [graphic]
2. Miseries of human life [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [October 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.10.00.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- From her bed with bed curtains, an ill-looking woman with an imploring look on her face from her bed reaches for her nurse who is asleep in an armchair with her back to her patient and her feet on a cushion. She is very fat and coarse looking as she sits in front of a fire. The candle stick has fallen from the table and lies unobserved smoking on the floor at her feet, the snuffer also on the floor beside a cat who grabs the food from a plate that has also fallen to the floor. The table by the nurse's elbow holds medicine bottles as well as dishware. More medicine bottles are on the mantel and at her feet. A pot warms over the fire
- Alternative Title:
- While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Five lines of text below title: While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse, who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort, leaves your door wide open, stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark: John Hall 1805
- Publisher:
- Published Octr. 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Medicines, Nurses, Accidents, and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of human life [graphic]
3. Miseries of human life [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- October 1807.
- Call Number:
- 807.10.00.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life': three tailors (or his apprentices) at work disturbed by woman carrying a tray of cucumbers on her head
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: While deep in study and lost in thought in the complicated profession of a taylor and all on a sudden disturbed by the shrieks of a woman crying cucumbers., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: J Ruse., and Countermark: 1804.
- Publisher:
- Published by R. Ackermann Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Interiors, Tailor shops, and Tailors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of human life [graphic]
4. The gout, or, One of the miseries of life [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Decr., 1806.
- Call Number:
- 806.12.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- One of the miseries of life
- Description:
- A large image of a man in a chair his one leg in a huge bandage above a footstool. He is in a rage as he holds up his crutch and screams "How the plague should you like it." Two small men in the background (right) cower as they look at him; they stand on a book with the title "On fellow feeling". To the left and right on the ground at his side are stacks of books including: Dr. K On the gout; Work der wonders, etc., Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Gout and Sick persons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The gout, or, One of the miseries of life [graphic]
