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 supplied by curator. and Illustration for William Combe, The History of Johnny Quae Genus or the Foundling of Doctor Syntax, London: R. Ackermann, 1821.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medical offices, and Waiting rooms
Plate 61. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A mock coat-of-arms for physicians with fifteen heads of doctors, three of whom, in the top row, are identified as John Taylor, Sarah Mapp, and Joshua Ward; three in the lower centre peer at liquid in a glass phial, the one to left using a pince-nez. The whole is contained within a black border or hatchment supported by cross-bones. The text on the scroll at the bottom of the design: "Et plurima mortis imago."
Description:
Title etched below image., "Price six pence.", Title from British Museum catalogue: A consultation of physicians., Caption below image begins: "Beareth sable, an urinal proper, between 12 quack-heads of the second & 12 caneheads or consultant ...", Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dod, Pierce (1683-1754) -- Bamber, Dr., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 263 x 178 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Ward, Joshua, 1685-1761, Taylor, John, 1703-1772, and Mapp, Sarah
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
"The interior of a poverty-stricken room. An old man (left) seated in a chair is rubbing one foot which rests on a low stool with the contents of a bottle held in his right hand. He wears a night-cap, his hat and wig hang on the back of his chair. A witch-like woman, wearing large spectacles, is seated by the fire, she holds on her lap the bare leg of a young man, and is about to apply to it the contents of a pot which she is stirring on the fire. He is yelling with pain. On the wall is a placard, "Dr Steers Opodeldoc for Chilblains." Poverty is indicated by the untidy bed, a broken casement window, and the character of the chimney-piece, on which is a lighted candle, a tea-pot, and a broken cup. Over it is a print of a man, three quarter length. Probably a quack chiropodist's establishment of a very humble kind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctor -- Medical: Chiropody -- Pin-point spectacles., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Kibe -- Chilblains., 1 print : etching, engraving, and stipple engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 189 x 161 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Podiatry, Foot, Diseases, Interiors, Poverty, Teapots, Fireplaces, Eyeglasses, Beds, Cats, and Pain
Plate 6. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a squalid room Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies. Her serving-woman reaches out to them in alarm to get their attention for the invalid, while another woman rifles through Moll's portmanteau (with her initials as in Plate 1). A small boy knelling next to Moll's chair scratches his head as he turns a joint of meat roasting in front of the fire while a pot overflows on the grate. An over-turned table with an advertisement "Practical scheme ... 'Anodyne" litters the floor in the foreground
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson., "Plate 5. "--Lower left corner., State with black Latin cross below design, "Dr. Rock" on the paper holding the teeth on the right, and various areas of the design darkened with diagonal lines and crosshatching. See Paulson., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 323 x 392 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Misaubin, Jean, 1673-1734. and Rock, Richard, 1690-1777.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Beds, Children, Death, Interiors, Quacks, Prostitutes, Servants, Syphilis, Rake's progress, and Sexually transmitted diseases
An obese doctor in a dressing gown and slippers stands in the center looking right at a group of three male patients, all elderly and with diseased and contorted faces. He hands a small bowl to one patient; medical supplies are laid out on the table at his side as well as on the floor near the table. Another patient while another leaves the room leaning on a crutch. In the background two women in obvious pain await their turn; behind them, an open cupboard reveals a skeleton
Description:
Title from item., "One of a set of copies of watercolours by Rowlandson, all with an imitation of his signature and the same imprint"--British Museum online catalogue., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Eady, Dr.
Publisher:
Published by Reeve & Jones, No. 7 Vere Strt
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Pain, Physical characteristics, Physicians, Sick persons, and Skeletons
In an oval, a doctor in a wig sits behind a table so only the upper half of his body is shown. His hands are buried deep in a large muff, his one elbow leaning on the table. On either side of his body are one and two candlesticks with lit candles
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: reference to G. A. Stevens's Lecture on Heads (1764)., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Theatre., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 38.0 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 10, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Candles, Candlesticks, Muffs, and Quacks
