An apothecary. A chirurgion and Un apoticaire. Un chirurgian
Description:
Titles in Dutch, English, and French from item., Place of publication based on printmaker's country of residence., Sheet trimmed., 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: Apothecaries.
Battle of the belles on [the] election of the King of Bath
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Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London, v. 2 (1769), p. 188., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: assembly room at Bath -- Fights -- Elections: election of the Master of the Ceremonies at Bath, 1769 -- Apothecary -- Physician -- Lawyer -- Military officers -- Cuckolds.
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Abel Drugger is a character in the play The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall, East, March Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Actors, Theater, Pharmacists, Skulls, Books, and Specimens
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Drugstores, Mortars & pestles, Medicines, Scales, and Pharmacists
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., From: Habits de métiers., Prints have been attributed to N. Larmessin II, d.1694. Most recently to N. Larmessin III., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Chez N. de L'Armessin, Rue St Jacques, à la Pome d'Or, Avec Privil du Roy
Subject (Topic):
Allegorical costume, Pharmacists, Medicines, Snakes, Medicinal plants, and Medical equipment & supplies
Title etched below image., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., 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: The Lancet
Publisher:
Geo. Newbold, 303 & 304, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Death (Personification)., Obstetrics, Horses, Coffins, Snuff, and Devil
Title etched below image., Place of publication derived from street address., 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: The Lancet.
Publisher:
Published Jany 1st 1831 by F.G. Harding 24 Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Death (Personification)., Obstetrics, Horses, Coffins, Snuff, and Devil
"Four grotesque men, all crippled or deformed, are in a row before a set of druggist's shelves headed 'Staats Apotheek'. Those on the extreme left and right stand, the others sit. A knock-kneed hunchback (left), smoking a long pipe, the smoke inscribed 'Hellebr . . .', holds a paper: 'Recipe'. A ragged and lame National Guard picks the pocket of his neighbour. Above the shelves, and forming the apex of the design, a fury, Discord, with snaky locks, leans from clouds, holding a flaming sword and looking down threateningly at the conference. On the top shelf are a 'Guillotine' and a bull, 'Phalaris', a block inscribed 'Menschen lief de' next a gallows, a demon. Below are bottles: 'Quint Ess: de Robespierr, Sel de Marat, Recipes en Assignaten [see British Museum Satires No. 8849], Rotten gift [poison for mice], Alb: Graec:' On the wall hang a sword and shackles. Text, 'Luke', xii. 26."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Plate numbered "2" in upper left corner., With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior -- Politics, French -- Politics, British -- Politics, Dutch., 1 print : etching ; sheet 272 x 220 mm., and Printed in red ink.
Hudibras confronts the astrologer Sidrophel in an apothecary's laboratory; on his desk is a globe, an ink well with quill pen, a book and sheets of paper with a horoscope; from the ceiling and wall hang a stuffed crocodile (from which hangs a shell-shaped lantern with a high flame), swordfish, turtle, a bat, frogs, a snake, and other creatures; to left, a cupboard door is open to reveal a skeleton with an owl on its shoulder; on the floor, are a glass jar containing a homunculus or foetus, another globe decorated with the signs of the Zodiac, various scientific instruments including a telescope, a quadrant and plumb line, and a cat and a mouse-trap. Sidrophel has an amulet around his neck, "Homo sacarus museo Cheru[...]."
Alternative Title:
Hudibras and Sidrophel
Description:
Title engraved above image., From a series of twelve prints after Hogarth and issued by Robert Sayer. Publisher name from first print in series., Date of publication based on publisher's name and address in imprint statement on the first plate in this series. Robert Sayer moved to 53 Fleet Street in 1760, and from 1777 onward he formed partnerships that caused him to trade under different names (Sayer & Bennett, Sayer & Co., etc.); see British Museum online catalogue. He acquired the Hogarth plates from Overton and re-issued them and copies in 1768. See Paulson., Numbered "8" in upper left corner., Fifteen lines of verse in three columns, below image: Then Hudibras, with face and hand, Made signs for silence which obtained, ... O'th sudden clapp'd his flaming cudgel Like Linstock to the horse's touch-hole., Copy of no. 511 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 89., and From a set of twelve prints, all with two sewing holes along left edge.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, History, Amulets, Astrologers, Cats, Dead animals, Fighting, Globes, Mousetraps, Owls, Pharmacists, Scientific equipment, and Skeletons
