Burton, Charles, active 1823-1839, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1842]
Call Number:
842.00.00.05
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from heading above image., Nineteen images on sheet; each individually captioned., Captions include: First eclipse of the moon on record 720 B.C.; Jerusalem taken after a siege of 18 months, 587 B.C. Qy. "with master's gun"?; Xerxes' expeditions against Greece, 481 B.C. ..., and "Price 2d".
A doctor and nurse prescribing new medicines for their patient; representing Britain under a new government. The doctor (Peel) holding a medicine bottle labelled: "New tariff" says: "Come take it off like a man! Its the only remedy for your complaint, I have mixed you something very nice to wash it down." The nurse (Wellington) adds: "Come Johnny there's no use making wry faces, you know you must swallow it." John Bull holding a cup inscribed: "Income tax" retorts: "It's a great deal nastier than Dr. Russell's physic." Lying discarded on the floor are a bottle of medicine labelled; "Russell purge" and a container inscribed: "Barings pills."
Description:
Title from text below image., Print signed using John Doyle's "HB" monogram., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British -- Baring's Pills -- Russell's Purge.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarke[t] and Printed at the Genl. Lithc. Estabt., 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878., Baring, Francis Thornhill, 1796-1866., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850., and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Legislative bodies, Reform, Physician and patient, Nurses, and Medicine
Title below image., Plate engraved for: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842]., and With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Title below image., Engraved for the 1842 "Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill"; with caption added., and With an embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.
Suit of armor made for François I. The armour was purchased in 1771 by Horace Walpole for his collection at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, from the estate of Louis-Antoine Crozat, Baron de Thiers. The armor was later sold to Samuel Pratt at the 1842 sale of the contents of Strawberry Hill, forty-five years after Walpole's death. The print depicts the armour as seen from the front as well as a detail of the side of the helmet and the back plate
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date based on Pratt's years of ownership of the armor., and W.S. Lewis pencilled note on verso: "Removed from McKinlay extra-illustrated set of Sale catalogues by WSL & sent to Geane[...].
Title from caption below image., Attributed to Richard Doyle by Gumuchian., Publication information from cover to the series: The christening procession of Prince Taffy., One print from a series of 24 pen lithographs, printed on both sides, commemorating the christening of Edward VII., Print numbered '23' in upper right corner., and On same sheet, verso: Spectators.
Title from caption below image., Attributed to Richard Doyle by Gumuchian., Publication information from cover to the series: The christening procession of Prince Taffy., One print from a series of 24 pen lithographs, printed on both sides, commemorating the christening of Edward VII., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., and On same sheet, verso: The Prince of Wale's chief rocker; Women of the bed chamber; Dr. Locork.
Title from caption below image., Attributed to Richard Doyle by Gumuchian., Publication information from cover to the series: The christening procession of Prince Taffy., One print from a series of 24 pen lithographs, printed on both sides, commemorating the christening of Edward VII., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., and On same sheet, verso: The royal cot; Usher of the black rod.
Title from caption below image., Attributed to Richard Doyle by Gumuchian., Publication information from cover to the series: The christening procession of Prince Taffy., One print from a series of 24 pen lithographs, printed on both sides, commemorating the christening of Edward VII., Plate numbered '16' in upper left corner., and On same sheet, verso: The Queen Dowager, her tail borne, the Lord knows how.
Title from caption below image., Attributed to Richard Doyle by Gumuchian., Publication information from cover to the series: The christening procession of Prince Taffy., One print from a series of 24 pen lithographs, printed on both sides, commemorating the christening of Edward VII., Print numbered '22' in upper right corner., and On same sheet, verso: Rough Dragon, and Garter King at arms; Beef eaters.