"A fat citizen (three-quarter length), seated in an armchair, endures an operation upon the carbuncles of his bloated nose. The operator (left), thin and high-shouldered, holds the patient's forehead and applies a small pointed instrument (a metallic ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs
Subject (Name):
Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Quacks and quackery, Quacks, Medical procedures & techniques, Medical equipment & supplies, Pipes (Smoking), Newspapers, and Dogs
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 a...
Description:
Title from item.
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
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. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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)
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 rif...
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson.
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
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. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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)
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. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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)
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 rif...
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson.
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
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. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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)
"A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated,...
Alternative Title:
Masonic anecdote
Description:
Titles in English and French etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 21st, 1786, for the proprietor by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
Subject (Topic):
Freemasonry, Quacks and quackery, Fraternal organizations, Interiors, Dining tables, Chairs, Candles, and Eating & drinking
"A fat citizen (three-quarter length), seated in an armchair, endures an operation upon the carbuncles of his bloated nose. The operator (left), thin and high-shouldered, holds the patient's forehead and applies a small pointed instrument (a metallic ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 11, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Quacks and quackery, Quacks, Medical procedures & techniques, Medical equipment & supplies, Pipes (Smoking), Newspapers, and Dogs
"From the bustle and life visible on all sides it would seem that the period is fair-time, when the rustics and agricultural population of the vicinity in general flock into the town, holiday-making. A travelling mountebank has established his theatre...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 6 March 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Teeth, Extraction, Jews, City & town life, Plazas, Medicine shows, Audiences, Crowds, Peddlers, and Butchers
"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 w...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Podiatry, Foot, Diseases, Interiors, Poverty, Teapots, Fireplaces, Eyeglasses, Beds, Cats, and Pain
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 th...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
"A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated,...
Alternative Title:
Masonic anecdote
Description:
Titles in English and French etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 21st, 1786, for the proprietor by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
Subject (Topic):
Freemasonry, Quacks and quackery, Fraternal organizations, Interiors, Dining tables, Chairs, Candles, and Eating & drinking
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. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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)
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.
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
A group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. A version of the print also published with lettering "The company of undertakers". The three named quacks occupy the top, twelve other 'doctors' are s...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
