Title below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Below title: What a pestilent knave is this same. Shakespeare., 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: Theatre.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Mesmerism, Hypnotism, Quacks and quackery, and Physicians
A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Doctor Rock (Richard Rock 1690-1777) was an itinerant medicine vendor who frequented the London areas of St. Pauls and Covent Garden. He was famous for his "anti-venereal, grand, specifick pill". He was satirised in several caricatures: W. Hogarth represented him in A harlot's progress pl. V; The march to Finchley; and The four times of the day, morning and "A fashionably-dressed man kneels in profile to the left at a large chest of 'Patent Medecines', on which is a duck with the inscription 'Quack. Quack. Quack' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 5766]. A hanging candelabra and a festooned curtain indicate wealth. He prays to the shade of Dr. Rock, describes the composition of his famous Vegetable Drops, and asks for the continuance of 'my Carriages and Equipage, my Town and Country Residence, and all other good things of this life ...'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Publisher from imprints present on other plates in the series. For information on the series, see page 51 in v. 8. of the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Date of publication from Grego., and Twenty-one lines of letterpress text below title: Illustrious shade of the renowned Dr. Rock, still continue, I beseech thee ...
Publisher:
R. Ackermann and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Rock, Richard, 1690-1777 and Doctor Botherum.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Selling, Drugs, Medicine, Chests, Ducks, Costume, Candelabra, Draperies, Prayer, Quacks, and Patent medicines
Title derived from caption below image., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Complete caption: The quintessence of quackism, founded principals truly chimerical aetherial magnetical, electrical, & immaterial, & the four quarters of the globe ransak'd to make it ingeniously rediculous. Dedicated to the emperor of quacks, by myself., Description from British Museum: Beneath the design is engraved a musical score with the words of a song. A burlesque representation of the quack doctor James Graham (1745-94), who opened his 'Temple of Health' in the Adelphi in the autumn of 1779. Graham stands full-face; he holds in his mouth the end of the tail of a monkey which sits on his head. The monkey holds out a duck by one leg, which is saying "Quack Quack". Graham holds out in his right hand a circular box inscribed "Æthereal Pills". A medallion hangs round his neck, on which is a woman's head, inscribed "Female Historian". She is Mrs. Catherine Macaulay (see index) whom he treated at Bath, so gaining his first start. He stands between two gigantic men wearing large laced hats and long coats; one, "Gog" (left), in back view, the other, "Magog" (right), stands full-face holding a paper inscribed "Sketch of the Plan of the Temple of Health". These represent the gigantic footmen or porters who were among the attractions of the 'Temple' and who distributed bills advertising the establishment, see BMSat 6346 and Angelo, 'Reminiscences', 1904, i. 97. Between them, and above Graham's head, the words "Hail Wonderous Combination!" are etched. By the left margin of the print, two men are gazing at the spectacle, one clasps his hands in admiration or supplication. On the opposite side is a man grinning with two small boys who laugh and point, one of them a little chimney-sweep with brushes and sack., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs. Oct 30th. 1780. P. Mitchel North Audley St. Grosvenor Sq.
Subject (Name):
Graham, James, 1745-1794.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Physicians, Porters, Monkeys, Chimney sweeps, Musical notation, Childrens, Ducks, and Medals
Title engraved below image., Date and place of publication from item., See: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, political and personal satires. No. 3798., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st 1784, by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Physician and patient, Quacks and quackery, Medical fees, Sick persons, Physicians, Children, Mothers, Barter, and Bacon
published as the act directs [...] [not before 9 November 1782]
Call Number:
782.11.09.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A greedy medical practitioner demanding a leg of bacon for payment from a poor family and "The interior of a room showing no trace of actual poverty. The invalid, a man, fully dressed but wearing a nightcap, sits in an upholstered arm-chair by the fire. A little girl stands at his knee; at his side on a tray or table are two bowls and a medicine bottle labelled 'as before'. The physician, a well-dressed man wearing a bag-wig, is about to leave the room (right); he puts coins into the hand of a young woman holding an infant. The room is papered, a half-tester bed with curtains stands against the wall. Tea-things are ranged along the chimney-piece, over which is a framed picture of a Christ healing the blind man."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., A publication date of approximately 1760, later amended to 1783, was originally suggested in the British Museum catalogue; however, the British Museum has since acquired an impression with an intact publication date of "9 Novr. 1782." See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.3161., Description based on an imperfect impression; publication date erased from sheet., Four lines of verse in two columns beneath title: The rapacious quack quite vext to find, his patient poor, and so forsaken; a thought soon sprung up in his mind, to take away a piece of bacon., Companion print to: The benevolent physician., and Plate numbered "487" in lower left.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Avarice, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Clothing & dress, Diseases, Families, Poverty, Quacks, Bacon, Children, Costume, Country life, and Sick
A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner. The sailor describes his medical history in nautical terms. He refers to a skeleton suspended in a cupboard as the doctor's "messmate". and "Sailor and quack face each other in a consulting room. The sailor (left) has a clumsy bandage over forehead, one eye, and left cheek; he is dressed as in British Museum Satires No. 10894; under his arm is a cudgel, and in his hand a paper headed 'List of Cures'. Behind him (left) is an open cupboard containing a tall skeleton with goggling eye-sockets. With forefinger raised, warily pugnacious, he says: "You must know Doctor I have got a bit of a Confusion on my larboard cheek from a chance shot, and as I dont think it of consequence enough for our Ship's surgeon, I bore down to you, after overhauling a long list of your cures - but I suppose front the messmate in the Cabin there, you dont always make a return of the Killed and Wounded?" The doctor, in old-fashioned dress and wig, leans towards him with extended forefinger, saying, "Sir, my rule of practice is this, there is pen, ink, and paper, - sign a certificate of your cure, and I'll take you in hand immediately on paying down two Guineas!" A table with writing materials stands against the wall; on the floor is a crudely patterned carpet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Skeleton, Costume, Sailors, Jargon (Terminology), Medical equipment & supplies, Nightsticks, Quacks, Skeletons, and Writing materials
A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner. The sailor describes his medical history in nautical terms. He refers to a skeleton suspended in a cupboard as the doctor's "messmate". and "Sailor and quack face each other in a consulting room. The sailor (left) has a clumsy bandage over forehead, one eye, and left cheek; he is dressed as in British Museum Satires No. 10894; under his arm is a cudgel, and in his hand a paper headed 'List of Cures'. Behind him (left) is an open cupboard containing a tall skeleton with goggling eye-sockets. With forefinger raised, warily pugnacious, he says: "You must know Doctor I have got a bit of a Confusion on my larboard cheek from a chance shot, and as I dont think it of consequence enough for our Ship's surgeon, I bore down to you, after overhauling a long list of your cures - but I suppose front the messmate in the Cabin there, you dont always make a return of the Killed and Wounded?" The doctor, in old-fashioned dress and wig, leans towards him with extended forefinger, saying, "Sir, my rule of practice is this, there is pen, ink, and paper, - sign a certificate of your cure, and I'll take you in hand immediately on paying down two Guineas!" A table with writing materials stands against the wall; on the floor is a crudely patterned carpet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 245 x 347 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Skeleton, Costume, Sailors, Jargon (Terminology), Medical equipment & supplies, Nightsticks, Quacks, Skeletons, and Writing materials
Toothache, or, Torment and torture, Torment & torture, and Torment and torture
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published August 1, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):
Toothache, Dentistry, Quacks and quackery, Dental equipment & supplies, Pain, Birdcages, Wigs, and Dogs
Toothache, or, Torment and torture, Torment & torture, and Torment and torture
Description:
Title etched 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., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.5 x 20.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Mounted on leaf 25 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published August 1, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):
Toothache, Dentistry, Quacks and quackery, Dental equipment & supplies, Pain, Birdcages, Wigs, and Dogs
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[16 September 1802]
Call Number:
Print01325
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An operator treating Ann Ford, a society lady, with "Perkins's tractors", for her venomous tongue and "An old maid is tied by arms and ankles to an armchair while an operator applies 'metallic tractors' to her tongue, using both hands. An iron clamp holds her head steady. She wears old-fashioned dress with a laced stomacher. From the doctor's pocket projects a paper: 'Fores [partly obliterated] Operator'. Rays of flame dart from the victim's tongue: 'Half-Hints', 'Innuendoes', 'Hypochrisy', 'Envy', 'Scandal', 'Detraction', 'Malignity'. Three young girls watch from the left: they say: "good Heavens? could you suppos my Aunt had such an envenomed Tongue"; "oh yes my dear there are many more such in our Town, if this good man cures all such Tongues he will deserve a Statue"; "Yes and all our young Friends I am sure will subscribe liberally". The room is that of the patient: on the right is a round table where spectacles have just been laid down; on it are writing materials, a large 'Bible', and a paper: 'Mem - not to forget at Miss Magpy's Tea party the hints respecting the Young Miss Tumid also the round appearance of Mrs Generous who was married last Week. Particulars Insinuate how Miss Lively lives so genteel When we cannot find out what resources she has------to take Care I do for Miss Bold who insolently said she did not believe the story of Miss Virtues Slip.' Beside it an open cupboard, with bunch of keys in the lock, shows decanters of 'Ratafia', 'Peppermint', and 'Caraway', four books: 'Duty of Man', 'Eloise', 'Sermons', 'Glass Cookery', and a large bottle of 'Nig' [gin], a flagon of 'Cherry Brandy', and a glass. A low screen with half-panels has on one leaf a flaming globe inscribed 'Observe the End'; the ray of 'Half-Hints' strikes the flames. On the screen sits a parrot. On a chair (left) a cat suckles kittens."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening"--Below imprint statement., Text below image, on either side of title: A new discovered virtue in these invaluable operators most cordially recommended to the public at large and to Dr. Perkins in in [sic] particular as a likely means of preventing more murder than all the poenal statutes., The print contains three pieces of dialogue., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Metallic tractors.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 16, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810. and Thicknesse, Ann, 1737-1824.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medical instruments and apparatus, Costume, History, and House furnishings
