Title from item., Date based on events represented., Place of publication derived from publisher's known location., Above image: Actualités; No.126., In image lower right: 52., Published in Le Charivari., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Chez Aubert Pl. de la Bourse and Imp. Aubert & Cie
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Ledru-Rollin, 1807-1874, Raspail, F.-V. 1794-1878 (François-Vincent),, Cavaignac, Eugène, 1802-1857, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873, and Lamartine, Alphonse de, 1790-1869
Subject (Topic):
France, Politics and government, Politicians, Harps, Quarreling, and History
Title from item., Above image: Puck., Published in Puck, 28 August 1881., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, U.S.A.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894. and Tanner, James, 1844-1927
Subject (Topic):
Pensions, Disabled veterans, Quacks and quackery, Polilticians, Disabled persons, Healing, Money, Peg legs, Crutches, and Politics and government
"Thomas Raikes sits on a divan between two courtesans, his head in profile to the right. On the right is a round table spread with a luxurious dessert, pine-apple, peaches, decanters, &c. The centre-piece is a figure of Mercury (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7592) poised on a globe and holding up a second globe, perhaps a lamp. A long bill hangs from the table . . . Dr to Mrs Wood--Bed--10-- Brandy 5--coffee 1--Eggs--Brandy 2--Oysters 1--Eggs--20, 0 Ham--10-- Coffee 11--Beds 5--Brandy 2--Bed 1-- to show that the establishment is a brothel run by Mrs. ('Mother') Wood (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13734). On the wall are two pairs of crossed rakes tied with ribbons, and pictures, with punning titles: Siege of Belle Lisle, Wood Deamon [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10796], Babes in ye Wood, The Rakes Progress, Burn em Wood, Deity of the Woods, Wood Pigeon Wood Cock."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
The commercial dandy and his sleeping partners
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Dr. E.D." pseudonym of George Cruikshank?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Costume: male, female, 1821 -- Furniture: round table -- Divan -- Food: pineapple, fruit -- Decanters -- Lighting: candlestick -- Mythology: Mercury -- Rakes -- Mrs. "Mother" Wood, fl. 1821., Manuscript "256" in upper center of plate., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1821 by G. Humprey [sic] 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Raikes, Thomas, 1777-1848
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Courtesans, Dandies, British, and Prostitutes