Mir i voĭna (Moscow, Russia) ; vyp. 11-ĭ., Mir i voĭna ; vyp. 11-ĭ, Prokli︠a︡tyĭ vopros Rossii, Vostochnyĭ vopros, Восточный вопрос, Миръ и война ; вып. 11-й, Проклятый вопрос России, and Проклятый вопросъ Россіи : восточный вопросъ / Б. Глубовскій ; редакція В. Пичета.
Description:
Original wrappers.
Publisher:
Knigoizdatelʹstvo "Obshchee di︠e︡lo" and Книгоиздательство "Общее дѣло"
Subject (Geographic):
Balkan Peninsula, Balkan Peninsula--History--19th century, and Russia--History--1801-1917
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[July 1827]
Call Number:
Print01056
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. A scrawny and an obese dog play next to the doctor's stool and bucket. On the wall are a picture of an obese man and a skeletal man and a picture entitled "Specimen of the reduction of a dog, performed by the stomach-pump - in 3 operations"
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a series of "Arithmetic" plates by Henry Heath. For other plates in the series, see British Museum online catalogue, registration nos.: 1985,0119.89; 1985,0119.312-313; 1985,0119.316-317; and 1985,0119.324., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1827 by William Cole, Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Patients, Obesity, Therapeutics, Stomach-pump, Costume, History, Medical equipment & supplies, Medical procedures & techniques, Pails, Dogs, Mirrors, and Stools
Universal history, presumably abridged from (the Persian compendium of?) the Akhbār al-rusul wa-al-mulūk of al-Ṭabarī., Beginning and end missing, and The volume covers the years A.H. 7-240 (A.D. 628-854).
Description:
Old (14th century?) naskhī, in red and black. and Islamic binding, in brown, flap missing.
History of the construction of the Aya Sofya palace
Description:
In Persian., The manuscript was probably copied not long after the date of composition of the treatise, A.H. 982 (A.D. 1574 or 75)., Fair nastaʻlīq, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and blue on leaf 229 verso; leaves 229-230 with gold rectangular borders., Islamic binding, in contemporary brown calf., and With: 2 other titles.