"Bedroom scene: an invalid in a dressing-gown sits smiling in an arm-chair, while a fat yawning doctor, 'Quiet', puts a night-cap on his head. On the right 'Merryman', dressed as a zany or clown, with a gridiron painted on the back of his striped tunic, kicks Death towards the door (right), and presses his cap like an extinguisher against its grinning skull; he says: "Be Off! Be Off! you have no chance where Diet Merryman and Quiet practice!" Death answers: "Then my first job must be to quiet you and your partners will soon follow." Quiet: "Come now for a little quiet; Merrymans dose has opperated suficiently!" The patient holds a 'merrythought'. A fat cook, 'Diet', stands on the left inspecting a dish of bare chicken bones; he says, grinning broadly: "He'll do! Pick'd the bones clean! We shall beat the Charlotte Street Medical Board hollow!" A dinner-table, with an empty plate, a decanter of 'Madiera' and a loaf, is on the left, and behind it a large canopied bed. The chimneypiece (right), is covered with medicine-bottles. The floor is boarded. On it lie two piles of 'Carricatures', evidently the 'Caricature Magazine', on which the imprint is inscribed. There are also books lettered 'Jests'. A puff for Tegg's Magazine, cf. British Museum Satires No. 11976."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Numbered "380" in upper right corner of design., Temporary local subject terms: Bed curtains -- Doctors., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Diet -- Dr. Merryman -- Dr. Quiet -- *Charlotte Street Medical Board -- Skeleton as Death -- Diet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Bedrooms, Physicians, Skeletons, Clowns, Draperies, Canopy beds, Cooks, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Fireplaces, and Bottles
An elderly lady with towering coiffure topped with feathers and ribbons holds tightly to the post of a canopy bed, as her equally old and ugly maid, bracing a foot on the lady's cork rump, tightens her stays
Description:
Title etched below image., "RS" is probably "Richard Sneer", i.e. Richard Brinsley Sheridan., Imprint continues: ... who has great variety of humorous prints., Sheet trimmed wtihin plate mark with partial loss of price statement from lower right. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., "Price one shilling.", and Mounted to 24 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 5 Marh. 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho ...
An elderly lady with towering coiffure topped with feathers and ribbons holds tightly to the post of a canopy bed, as her equally old and ugly maid, bracing a foot on the lady's cork rump, tightens her stays
Description:
Title from item., Undated reissue by a different publisher. Cf. No. 5452 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., R.S. is probably "Richard Sneer", i.e. Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Date of publication conjectured from Holland's occupancy of 50 Oxford Street, known to be from 1782 to 1803.
In an elegantly decorated bedroom, a young woman with hair piled high in the fashion of the 1770s, holds tightly to a bedpost, while a man (her servant or husband) tugs on her stay-laces, and is in turn held around his waist by a female servant, who is also grasped by a small Black servant. The lady's lapdog looks on from the bed, while a monkey on the floor opens a book entitled "Fashion's victim: a satire"
Alternative Title:
Fashion before ease
Description:
Title from item., Date of printing based on watermark., Place of publication and publisher from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect, trimmed to design with loss of publication information and plate number., Originally issued by Carington Bowles after June 1777, then re-issued (with date burnished from the plate) by Bowles & Carver., Plate number: 362. Cf. Untrimmed impression in the British Museum., and Watermark: 1812.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Corsets, Fashion, Dogs, Monkeys, Beds, Bedrooms, and Tug of war
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
March 1, 1777.
Call Number:
777.03.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A small-waisted lady with towering coiffure topped by a beribboned hat stands in her boudoir holding onto post of canopy bed, as her footman, bracing his foot on her rump, tightens her stays. A decorative carpet is visible underfoot, and her dressing table may be seen to the left
Alternative Title:
Hold fast behind
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 29, V. 2.
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., 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 l'éditeur, quai de la Megisserie, 82; et Hautcoeur Martinet, rue de Coq St. Honoré
Subject (Topic):
Oral medication, Drugs, Medicines, Sick persons, and Bedrooms
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from publisher's nationality., From: Les Oeuvres de miséricorde., 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: Religion & medicine.
Publisher:
le Blond excud avec Privilege du Roy
Subject (Topic):
Diseases, Visiting the sick, Church work with the sick, Sick persons, Families, Bedrooms, Children, and Crying
Bateman's tragedy and Godly warning to all maidens
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse, known as 'Bateman's tragedy' - "You dainty dames so finely fram'd,". - In four columns, with the first and second as well as the third and fourth columns separated by ornamental rules; the title and first woodcut are above the first two columns while the second woodcut is above the third and fourth columns., Mounted on leaf 69. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
A social satire: a "curtain lecture" with a standing woman in night-clothes, one breast expose, berating a man in bed, who draws the bed-covers up to his chin. The bedroom has a large casement window through which is seen moonlight; on the sill are three bottles. Beside the bed is a chair on which his coat hangs; on the floor his unbuckled shoes and a candle
Alternative Title:
William and Margaret
Description:
Letterpress fragments from a ballad, pasted to the bottom edge of the print: William and Margaret. A Burlesque. 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, by S. Watts, No. 50 Strand
