An illustration to Smollett's Adventures of Roderick Random: Inside Surgeons Hall, the scene showing doctors around a table on which lies a skull. On the walls, placards wtih describing fees and another "Corporation of Surgeons"; on the left hands a skeleton
Description:
Title etched below image., Lower right corner: Vide Roderick Random, Vol. I, Chap. XVII., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermanns, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Smollett, T. 1721-1771. (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Medical education, Physicians, Signs (Notices), Skeletons, and Skulls
"View of the west front of Spencer House, from Green Park, figures in park in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802].
"View down St James's Street, looking south, with Brooks's Club built by Henry Holland on the right and Boodle's Club on the left, St James's Palace in the distance"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Saint James's Street
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker, publisher and approximate date of publication from similar prints in The Lewis Walpole Library. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library Topos L847 no. 53+., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., Probably a plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., The Lewis Walpole Library: From the Topographical Prints collection., and Window mounted to 48 x 36 cm.
Title from item, Numbered 'Hogarthian Novelist Plate 2' in lower left corner., After title: Vide Roderick Random, Vol. 1, Chap. xi., Illustration from Adventures of Roderick Random., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Later state of a plate recorded by Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v. 1, p. 310-311., and Temporary local subject terms: Innkeepers -- Travellers -- Military uniforms -- Clocks -- Literature: illustration to Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Title from caption below images., Four designs on one plate, each individually titled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Teapot -- Food., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799.
Publisher:
Pub. 25 July 1800 by R. Ackermann at his Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes -- Vehicles: overturned coaches -- Parliament: members of Parliament -- Politics: non-involvement in politics -- Quakers -- Walking staves.
Title etched below image., Possible attribution to Kingsbury., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Stewards -- Servants -- Furniture: wing chair.
"View of Uxbridge House in Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly; fashionably dressed figures on pavements on street, a carriage entering street beyond the house"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., and "Pl. 92"--Below imprint.
Print shows a group of five grotesquely caricatured men attending to a sixth man identified as Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, who is lecturing them on a skull which he holds up in his left hand. An open volume rests on a lectern beneath the lecturers prominent stomach, and the walls around the group are lined with shelves holding a collection of skulls and busts; the three shelves located behind them at left are labeled: Lawyers, thieves & murderers. - Poets, dramatists, actors. - Philosophers, statesmen & historians
Alternative Title:
Dr. Gall's lecture
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gall, F. J. 1758-1828 (Franz Joseph), and Gall, F. J. 1758-1828. (Franz Joseph),
Subject (Topic):
Craniology, Phrenology, Skull, Science, Physicians, and Lectures and lecturing
