"Long, dressed as a funeral mute or mourner, stands full-face, legs apart, carrying four large boards like a sandwich-man (then "board-man"). Only his draped hat and eyes appear above the central board. In his hand is a staff draped in black which is inscribed 'Killing No Murder' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 11371]. At his feet are many ducks, all angrily quacking: 'quack!!'; 'quack!!!'; or (one) 'cruel quack'. He says, quoting a nursery rhyme, 'Come, Dilly, Dilly, Dilly, come and be killed!!!' The principal board is headed 'To the Public', with the Royal Arms. Inscriptions: 'A Receipt of my Grandmothers | Decline Arrested | Consumption prevented | A Cure for all diseases | By The Simple | process of | Skinning Alive | protected by the | NOBILITY | and a House-Full of | Ladies | of the first Distinction | Dr Needy, Harley-Street | NO QUACKERY'. On both flanking boards are a grinning skull and cross-bones inscribed 'momento [sic] mori'; on one (left) are wine-glasses, tankard, and bottle and 'A Short Life and a Merry one'; (right) 'N.B. . Short Accounts make LONG Friends'. Behind is a funeral procession with two coffins, preceded by a duck. This passes the railings of a London square. Behind are houses, on one of which is a hatchment, and a church-steeple on which prances a tiny devil flourishing a trident."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Oracle of Harley Street
Description:
Title etched below image., Second title etched above image: The Oracle of Harley Street., Signed at bottom of plate with the initials "J.D.R." followed by a depiction of an artist's palette., Possibly etched by 'Sharpshooter' (the pseduonym of John Phillips); see British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consumption -- Funerals -- Manslaughter -- Drugs.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Long, John St. John, 1798-1834
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Malpractice, Quacks, Signs (Notices), and Ducks
"Ugly woman in latest Paris fashions followed by two regency dandies."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of dialogue below title: There's a d-d fine girl! Come along Tom, let's have a look at her! I dare say she's beautiful!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1830, by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street, Strand
"See BM Satires No. 16435. A pretty girl, perhaps the subject of BM Satires No. 16435, lies in a bed drawn close to a fire, indicated by corner of chimney-piece, fender, and guard (left). She is framed in drawn-back curtains, lit by firelight, and is wrapped in a tufted white counterpane from under which one swathed foot extends towards the fire. Her face is framed in nightcap and curl-papers. A cupid-candlestick supports an extinguished candle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Pl. 2., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"A pretty girl with elaborately dressed hair, a pyramid of curls with long ringlets framing the face, sits in a slipper bath (like Marat's) which covers her to the base of her long neck. The bath is close to an open window giving on to a lake in a park. A big jardinière filled with flowering plants stands by the window (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Pl. 1., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1834]
Call Number:
830.00.00.156
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A collection of social satirical images, visual puns, and vignettes. Possibly a portion of one of Grant's frontispieces
Description:
Title from captions below images, starting with the image on the upper left and reading across the top column., Date on publication based on printer's known active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Text following printmaker's statement: Author of MacLean & Alken's Sporting ideas, the (original) caricaturist a Monthly show up, Comic songs, Tregears flights of humor, Frontispieces to the Penny Mag. &c Comic almanac, Emigration & upward of 400 of the most popular caricatures of the day., and Mounted on blue paper. Cropped from an album page?
Publisher:
Published by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Squr., corner of Sidney's Court ...
Title from caption below image., A. Sharpshooter tentatively identified as John Phillips. British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 175.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 25, 1830 by S. Gans, 15, Southampton St., Strand
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, and Scarlett, James Yorke, Sir, 1799-1871
Title from text below image., Date of publication based on publisher J. Dickinson's street address; see British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted to 24 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Dickinson, 114 New Bond Street and Printed by C. Hullmandel
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830]
Call Number:
830.00.00.104
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Two lines of text below title: Fires, fires, the paper is full of fires, positively its not safe to travel now for one hardly nose [sic] when one's safe one moment from another!!!, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms:, and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill.
