Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Print00197
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life., and 1 print : etching with drypoint ; plate mark 237 x 303 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life., Mounted on page 89 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 23.7 x 30.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.03.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life., Mounted to 32 x 43 cm., Watermark: L.V.G., and Some ink wash added as additional shading to figures' clothing.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
Title and place of publication from item., Date derived from style of work., A smaller version is also in the collection, call number Poster1212., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Impies Lemercier. Paris
Subject (Topic):
Motion sickness, Antiemetics, Patent medicines, Women, and Ships
"Queensberry (right), walking beside a buxom young milliner, puts out an arm to touch her. His left hand is in a large muff. He wears a star and from his coat-pocket issue bottles labelled 'Renovating Balsam' and 'Velno's Vegetable Syrup' (see British Museum Satires No. 7592). She carries an arched-topped coffer (as in British Museum Satires No. 4923) and seems not unwilling."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Old Quiz the old goat of Piccadilly
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: A shining star - in the British Peerage, and a usefull ornament to society. Fudge., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress -- Trades: Milliners -- Velno's vegetable syrup -- Renovating balsam -- Containers: Milliners' coffer., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior -- Velno's Syrup., Leaf 9 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 23.9 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 25th, 1796, by R. Dighton, Charing Cross
"Queensberry (right), walking beside a buxom young milliner, puts out an arm to touch her. His left hand is in a large muff. He wears a star and from his coat-pocket issue bottles labelled 'Renovating Balsam' and 'Velno's Vegetable Syrup' (see British Museum Satires No. 7592). She carries an arched-topped coffer (as in British Museum Satires No. 4923) and seems not unwilling."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Old Quiz the old goat of Piccadilly
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: A shining star - in the British Peerage, and a usefull ornament to society. Fudge., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress -- Trades: Milliners -- Velno's vegetable syrup -- Renovating balsam -- Containers: Milliners' coffer., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior -- Velno's Syrup., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; image and text 240 x 192 mm.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 25th, 1796, by R. Dighton, Charing Cross
"Queensberry (right), walking beside a buxom young milliner, puts out an arm to touch her. His left hand is in a large muff. He wears a star and from his coat-pocket issue bottles labelled 'Renovating Balsam' and 'Velno's Vegetable Syrup' (see British Museum Satires No. 7592). She carries an arched-topped coffer (as in British Museum Satires No. 4923) and seems not unwilling."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Old Quiz the old goat of Piccadilly
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: A shining star - in the British Peerage, and a usefull ornament to society. Fudge., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress -- Trades: Milliners -- Velno's vegetable syrup -- Renovating balsam -- Containers: Milliners' coffer., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior -- Velno's Syrup.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 25th, 1796, by R. Dighton, Charing Cross
Title and place of publication from item., Date derived from style of work., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title and place of publication from item., Date from copy in Bibliothèque nationale de France, website viewed 3/22/2023: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90138505.item#, and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Affiches Artistiques Lemercier St r. de Seine, Paris and Imprimeries Lemercier
Subject (Topic):
Convulsions in children, Patent medicines, Children, and Putti
