"The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is ...
Alternative Title:
Searching for the philosophers stone
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
"The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is ...
Alternative Title:
Searching for the philosophers stone
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
"A bogus wizard stands raising his wand while a grotesque figure, in answer, snorting fire, emerges in clouds of smoke from a rectangular aperture in the floor (left), dagger in one hand, cup of 'poison' in the other. The dupe, an ugly man in old-fash...
Alternative Title:
Raising the devil
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12, 1800, by R. Ackerman, No. 101 Strand
"A bogus wizard stands raising his wand while a grotesque figure, in answer, snorting fire, emerges in clouds of smoke from a rectangular aperture in the floor (left), dagger in one hand, cup of 'poison' in the other. The dupe, an ugly man in old-fash...
Alternative Title:
Raising the devil
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12, 1800, by R. Ackerman, No. 101 Strand
A scene in a room: Justice Henry Fielding stans in a circle drawn on the floor, the scales of 'Astrea' in his pocket, his hand supported on the sword of Justice. Also in the circle as if to protect them from witchcraft are the Lord Mayor Sir Crisp Ga...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and British.
Subject (Name):
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Hill, John, 1714?-1775, Gascoyne, Crisp, Sir, 1700-1761, Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773, and Squires, Mary, -1762
Subject (Topic):
Romani, Fraud, Interiors, Criminals, Physicians, British, Government officials, and Magicians
Print with twelve panels relating to the affair of Mary Toft, "the rabbit breeder": from top left, she is held aloft by two men and a Harlequin or Merry Andrew, she has a rabbit in either hand; she pursues a rabbit while working in a field; she dreams...
Alternative Title:
New whim wham from Guildford
Description:
Title etched above images.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
Subject (Topic):
Christianity, Superstition, Demonology, Births, Brothels, Cupids, Fools & jesters, Fraud, Law enforcement, Physicians, Pregnant women, and Rabbits
A broadside printing of an 18th century scam, exploiting the helplessness of English debtors before the law. And especially the perennial animus towards the legal profession--"the chicanery of petty-fogging (would-be) attornies, the shameful plunder a...
