"A fat old woman leans back in an armchair, her left leg thrust forward. She pulls up her petticoat to display the bare leg, on which is a running sore, to an aged doctor (right), who bends over it, holding his spectacles to his eyes. Her desperate pl...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Skin, Diseases, Courtesans, Physicians, Candles, Eyeglasses, and Obesity
In an elegantly furnished sitting room, a man sits at a table in a dressing gown and night cap, his tongue hanging out of his mouth and his gouty leg resting on a foot stool as his pulse is taken by a physician (right). The physician looks at a pocke...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 22d, 1784, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Pulse, Cats, Chimneypieces, Clocks & watches, Dogs, Health care, Maps, Physicians, Pictures, Rugs, Sick persons, and Staffs (Sticks)
"A man supposed to be dead arising from his coffin and surprising his wife (?). The coffin is placed on trestles next to a four-poster bed (the deathbed of a rich man?). The lid of the coffin bears an elaborate brass plaque inscribed "Mr Gripe departe...
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of t...
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
