Title from text above images., Design divided into four panels, each individually captioned., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published July 9th 1827 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly
Title from caption below image., Text alongside title begins: "Attach yourself particularly to some elegant pursuit!! It will polish your manners ...", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"An enthusiastic young man practising fencing at a target on a door, accidentally having pierced the door and struck a servant behind it, whose tea tray falls to the floor; another young man playing a flute at a table looks over in surprise; a fencing book lying on the floor, sporting prints or other pictures on the wall behind, including two of a black and a white boxer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.312., One of a series of "Arithmetic" plates by Henry Heath, some of which have William Cole's July 1827 imprint in lower left. This is perhaps a later state with imprint burnished from plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Fencing, Daggers & swords, Servants, and Accidents
Title from caption below image., Text to the right of title begins: I have lived (said the indefatgable [sic] Dr. E.D. Clarke) to know that the great secret ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mantels -- Fireplaces -- Families -- Fire irons -- Tongs --Interiors -- Rugs.
Title from caption below image., Possible companion print to: Military parade., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and imprint mutilated., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades -- Children -- Hawkers -- Toys,
In a crowded street gentlemen, a young butcher's boy delivering a slab of meat on a tray, and a dustman smoke pipes and cigars creating large billows of smoke as ladies in large hats, some barely visible in the clouds of smoke, hold handkerchiefs to their eyes and noses. A large bull dog drowls heavily as he watches the smoke pouring from the boy's cigar
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 245 x 381 mm.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 25 1827 by Thos. McLean Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dogs, Hats, Pipes (Smoking), and Smoking
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket where political & other caricatuers are daily pub
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
