"Scene outside a large apothecary's shop, both windows filled with large coloured jars. Above the door is the sign, a terrestrial globe on which scales are balanced. Outside, a doctor in old-fashioned dress, acts as usher with a long wand to a band of naked infants (left) who run eagerly towards him. In the jars fœtuses are indicated. Outside the other window stands an undertaker holding up his professional staff and doffing a hat draped with a mourning scarf towards a skeleton who advances from the background (right). Behind the skeleton is a church among trees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with text "The World!" removed from lower margin and added (without exclamation mark) to the shop sign within image. Text beginning "Accoucheurs & apothecaries ..." below image has also been re-etched. For earlier state before these changes to the plate, see no. 14584 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies.
Publisher:
Pub. June 29, 1823, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Drugstores, Storefronts, Globes, Scales, Signs (Notices), Physicians, Infants, Containers, Undertakers, Staffs (Sticks), Skeletons, and Churches
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Servants -- Kissing.
Title from heading above image., Five lines of text below image: Absence of mind portends deep thought, and profound knowledge, when in company, affect to be insensible to the passing scene ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Tea -- Humor -- Parties -- Mirrors -- Parlors -- Curtains.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket
Title from caption below image, a quote from Milton's Paradise lost, Book 8. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1823 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
"An obese man has dismounted to offer help to an injured man thrown from his horse. In the background (left) a second saddle-horse grazes and (right) three men run off with the victim's hat, whip, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. May 12, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Tailor's shears -- Irons -- Food: cucumbers -- Tankards -- Goose -- Cabbage.
Publisher:
Published August 1, 1823 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Title from caption above image., Six lines of text below image: A strict attention to accounts is low and mechanical & beneath the consideration of a gentleman besides ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket
Title from heading above image., Five lines of text below image: Always prefer the theory of the art to having a practical knowledge of it forced on you; should you receive a blow from one who is your inferior in life ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket
