"The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is a crucible; various retorts, alembics, and other paraphernalia of the 'black arts,' are scattered about, as well as a formula for 'changing lead into gold'; although the alchemists at best could only contrive to accomplish the reverse transmutation. Suggestive prints are hung on the walls of this chamber of mystery, such as the portrait of the notorious 'Count Cagliostro, discoverer of the Philosopher's Stone,' and the figure of the spurious 'Bottle Conjurer.' A military officer, in the next apartment, is turning his opportunities to more practical advantage by embracing, with a certain display of ardour, a pretty maiden who is nothing loth, the daughter, it appears, of the philosophically minded investigator."--Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist
Alternative Title:
Searching for the philosophers stone
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed in image, lower left., Traces of burnished lettering in lower right corner of design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hoaxes: allusion to bottle conjurer -- Male costume -- Furniture: chest -- Philosopher's stone., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior., and Matted to 46 x 52 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
"Interior of one of the rooms of the lying-in hospital, in Marylebone; women lie in beds around edge of room, as nurses attend to them; a fire on the left; and a group of people consulting in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 133., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 44., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, interior -- Hospital visitors., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.7 x 27.6 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Novr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Great Britain., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Middlesex Hospital,
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Obstetrics, Nurses, Hospital wards, Maternity hospitals, Health care facilities, Interiors, Beds, and Fireplaces
"Interior of one of the rooms of the lying-in hospital, in Marylebone; women lie in beds around edge of room, as nurses attend to them; a fire on the left; and a group of people consulting in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 133., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 44., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, interior -- Hospital visitors., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 227 x 274 mm.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Novr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Great Britain., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Middlesex Hospital,
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Obstetrics, Nurses, Hospital wards, Maternity hospitals, Health care facilities, Interiors, Beds, and Fireplaces
"Interior of one of the rooms of the lying-in hospital, in Marylebone; women lie in beds around edge of room, as nurses attend to them; a fire on the left; and a group of people consulting in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 133., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 44., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, interior -- Hospital visitors., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Novr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Great Britain., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Middlesex Hospital,
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Obstetrics, Nurses, Hospital wards, Maternity hospitals, Health care facilities, Interiors, Beds, and Fireplaces
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 item., Printmaker supplied by curator., Date derived from printer's date of death., Place of publication derived from printer's nationality., Below title is written: Grauata morbo ab hocce membra mollia. Leuabit ista sorpta coctio arboris., In margin lower left: 6., From: Nova reperta., The Guaiacum tree (Hyacum) was considered a cure for syphilis., 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: Weights and Measures; Sexual behavior; Venereal disease.
Publisher:
Phls. Galle excu
Subject (Topic):
Guaiacum (Genus)., Syphilis, Care of the sick, Drugs, Prescribing, Physician and patient, Medicinal plants, Processing, Physicians, Sick persons, Medicines, Scales, Woodcutting, and Fireplaces
"Four designs, each with a title, the plate divided into four quarters. [1] 'John Bull Happy'. A cottage interior: John Bull, a stout countryman with wrinkled gaiters as in BMSat 7889, 8141, dozes serenely in an arm-chair before a blazing fire, holding a pitcher on his knee. Behind (left), his wife sits spinning; two little boys feed a bird in a wicker cage. A pretty young woman approaches the open door with a milk-pail on her head. Brass utensils are ranged on the chimney-piece, beside which is a roasting-jack with wheel and chain. A well-fed cat and dog sleep amicably by the fire. [2] 'John Bull going to the Wars'. John Bull has enlisted and marches off (left to right) beside a file of soldiers with drawn sabres, the man next him blowing a bugle. He marches with awkward energy, gazing proudly in profile to the right, not to see his wife and children (left), who cling to him, weeping. He holds a musket and is dressed as in [1], with the addition of a grenadier's cap and bandolier. Behind (left) is a corner of his cottage. [3] 'John Bull's Property in danger'. John Bull's wife, followed by her three children, approaches the stone gateway of the Treasury, its iron gate open, the three balls of a pawnbroker above it, the inscription 'Money Lent by Authority'. Beside it are two bills: 'Wanted a Number of Recruits to serve abroad' and 'List of Bankrupts John Bull'. The woman carries her spinning-wheel and a bundle of household goods; the smallest boy, holding his mother's petticoat, carries the bird-cage; the girl carries the churn and a bowl. The elder boy carries spade, rake, and pitchfork (a kettle slung to the prongs) and leads a pig. [4] 'John Bull's glorious Return'. A gaunt, one-legged, and one-eyed soldier (right), in tattered uniform, limps on crutches into a miserable hovel in which his starving family crouch over a fire lit on the hearth. The little boy clutches a bare bone; onions and a broken dish are on the floor (cf. BMSat 8145). Mother and sons are ragged and emaciated, the daughter has a certain youthful grace. They look with frightened astonishment at their almost unrecognizable father."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull happy, John Bull going to the wars, John Bull's property in danger, and John Bull's glorious return
Description:
Title etched below images., Four designs on one plate, each with a caption title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: cottage -- Bird cages -- Kitchen utensils: churn -- Farming tools -- Spinning-wheel -- Children -- British soldiers -- Military uniforms: Grenadier's cap -- Bandolier -- Swords: sabres -- Guns: bayoneted musket -- Musical instruments: bugle -- Emblems: pawnbroker's three balls -- Veterans -- Medical: amputees -- Crutches -- Eye patches -- Poverty.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 3d, 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Cats, Dogs, and Fireplaces
Leaf 82. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Kitchen of a French post house ; Playing billiards
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each with a separate title and signature., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Reduced copies of two designs by Bunbury. Cf. No. 4764 in v. 4 and no. 5913 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Restrike, with added titles and borders. For the earlier state without titles, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession nos.: 59.533.1749 ; 59.533.1747., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1803; see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., and On leaf 82 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
"Lady Perceval sits at an ornate writing-table, pen in hand. A serpent issues from her breast, coils round her arm, and darts its fang at the tip of her pen. She frowns meditatively, saying, "Now then for something strong but not libellous, I hate half measures we must rush upon the enemy--suprise [sic], astound him--and unhorse him by Terror--John Bull have at you! I'll open your eyes--." The table is littered with papers and books; some are docketed: 'For the Star', 'To the Editor of the Star', 'For the News', 'Extracts from the Book', one is 'Copy', a book is 'Politicks', and a large paper is displayed: 'Select Scraps from Shakespeare--with my own comments "Some achieve greatness "some have greatness thrust upon them .... Querie was this not the case with Nunky [Spencer Perceval], why not happen .... Son--.' Other papers and books lie on the floor: newspapers are 'The News' and 'The Star', a paper is headed 'Memorandums Billy Austin [see British Museum Satires No. 12027]--the Will--' Books are 'Life of Lord Nelson', 'A very Woman by Massinger', 'Machiavael', 'Johnson', 'Indiscretion a Novel', 'Don Quixote'. On the left John Mitford, identified by a letter in his coat-pocket 'To John Mit--', stands facing the wall, and hanging one picture over another: he places a view of a country inn, 'The Tigers Head' above one of '[War]burton's Mad House', saying, "Come this is a prettier picture than the other [left] shall catch some fish in this neighbourhood." He is fashionably dressed, wearing Hessian boots. This picture is on the left of a row: a large picture of 'Alecto' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7721), naked, wreathed in serpents, and brandishing scourge and fire-brand, with a background of flames hangs between three-quarter length portraits of 'Lady Douglas' and 'Lady A Hamilton'. The former covers her face with a tragic gesture; a dagger lies on a table beside her, she seems to contemplate suicide. The latter clasps her hands. Over the chimneypiece (right) is a three-quarter length portrait of 'Lord P . . . . val' concealing his face with his hat; below, and partly hiding the frame, is a statuette of a knight killing a dragon. On the chimney-piece there is also a bottle labelled 'Cephalic' (for diseases of the head). Papers are burning in the grate, one inscribed 'To[o] Libellous'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lady Paragraph championizing
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Text following title: - vide Letters., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text following title. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplify subject., Watermark: C. Ansell 1807., and Formerly mounted with remnants on verso.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 4th, 1814, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
