"An obese, elderly man, completely bald, sits in an arm-chair while a shopman pours oil from a bottle (straw-covered like a Chianti flask) on to his scalp, pressing down his head with the left hand. At his feet is a basin to receive the overflow. On t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 15th, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An obese, elderly man, completely bald, sits in an arm-chair while a shopman pours oil from a bottle (straw-covered like a Chianti flask) on to his scalp, pressing down his head with the left hand. At his feet is a basin to receive the overflow. On t...
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An obese, elderly man, completely bald, sits in an arm-chair while a shopman pours oil from a bottle (straw-covered like a Chianti flask) on to his scalp, pressing down his head with the left hand. At his feet is a basin to receive the overflow. On t...
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An obese, elderly man, completely bald, sits in an arm-chair while a shopman pours oil from a bottle (straw-covered like a Chianti flask) on to his scalp, pressing down his head with the left hand. At his feet is a basin to receive the overflow. On t...
"The head and shoulders of Lady Archer at different stages of her toilet. In the first (right), wearing a night-cap, with unsightly pendent breasts, she looks up to the left, tears falling from an empty eye-socket, her gaping mouth showing toothless j...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 29th, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Grooming, Mirrors, Teeth, and Wigs
"The head and shoulders of Lady Archer at different stages of her toilet. In the first (right), wearing a night-cap, with unsightly pendent breasts, she looks up to the left, tears falling from an empty eye-socket, her gaping mouth showing toothless j...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 29th, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Grooming, Mirrors, Teeth, and Wigs
"An apothecary's shop, the walls covered by jars closely ranged on shelves, a stuffed fish hanging from the ceiling. Behind a curtain (right) Death, wearing an apron, pounds at a mortar of 'slow Poison', looking gleefully in a mirror to watch the cust...
Alternative Title:
I have a secret art to cure each malady, which men endure
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1- 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Quacks and quackery, Skeletons, Interiors, Drugstores, Pharmacists, Mortars & pestles, Sick persons, Medicines, Shelving, Containers, and Mirrors
"A stout elderly man (left) seated in a chair shaves himself, while a pretty young woman (right) stands before him holding up a hand-mirror. A little girl is seated in a child's chair beside her father, she watches a cat and kitten at her feet."--Brit...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 21st, 1786, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street