Title below image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., In margin upper right: No.V., Subject is the controversy surrounding variolation vs. vaccination for smallpox., 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: Vaccination controversy.
"John Bull, a fat 'cit', is seated beside a writing-table (right) holding up a large book. On the left hand page is inscribed 'Vote of Thanks respecting the Expedition to Copenhagen'; John's pen rests on the last word, but he turns in horror to gaze at the ghosts of (left to right) Fox, Pitt, and Burke. These wear shrouds and stand on clouds; all point a menacing forefinger. Fox says: "Erase those lines from your Journal"; Pitt and Burke say "Erase". Burke wears spectacles and a Jesuit's biretta (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6026), and holds a large book inscribed 'Sublime & Beautiful' [cf., e.g., British Museum Satires No. 6361]. John wears glasses, his hair rises on his head, pushing up his ill-fitting wig. He says: "Why dont you come then and transact the business yourselves? - it is impossible I can please every body. - it is come to such a pitch now that I have no peace either with the living or the dead!!!""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Spectres visiting John Bull
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 23, 1808, by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Denmark.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Foreign relations, John Bull (Symbolic character), Ghosts, and Writing materials
Sacheverell sits at a table opposite a bishop wearing a mitre. He flicks his pen at a devil that flies to the left. The bookshelves on the wall behind them is filled with books. On the floor are a papal tiara and cope
Alternative Title:
Pope and the devil vanquish'd by a flurt from the doctors pen
Description:
Engraved broadside; title from caption above image., Publication date from another state in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ten lines of verse below image: I no such seconds* need to plead my cause ..., Cf. No. 1499 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Bowditch's manuscript annotations on the mounting sheet., and Mounted to 35 x 45 cm.
"A woman, fashionably dressed, is being led to the altar of Hymen by a youth. The altar is decorated with a mask and chains. Hymen, who stands on the altar, draws a veil over her face, holding her torch downwards. On the ground is a sleeping cupid. Behind the bride is a house, inscribed 'Alfred House'; on the ground at her feet are books, the cap and staff of Liberty (which she is treading under foot), an inkpot and pen. This symbolizes the marriage of Mrs. Catherine Macaulay, aged 57, with William Graham, aged 21, the younger brother of James Graham the quack doctor. Alfred House (2 Alfred Street, Bath) had been presented to her by Dr. Thomas Wilson; on her marriage he wished to eject her from it. She is here represented as throwing aside her historical writings and her patriotic zeal for an unnatural marriage."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from text above image., Publication information from that of the periodical in which the print was issued., Illustration from: Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 10 (December 1778), page 623., Date given in British Museum catalogue: 1 January 1779., Mounted to 23 x 14 cm., and Bound in after page 14 in Lord Rosebery's extra-illustrated copy of: Burn, J.S. History of the Fleet marriages. London : Rivingtons [etc.], 1834.
"The interior of a bare and plainly furnished room in a country inn; a number of middle-aged and plainly dressed men stand waiting for dinner to be served. Through a door in the back wall a serving-boy enters with a tureen, followed by a stout woman carrying a turkey, who is followed by a man-servant. A man (left), wearing spurred jack-boots, stands in profile to the left to hang his hat on a peg. He faces a framed notice: 'Club Law Ist no Journeyman or Apprentice must belong to this society 2nd No Jokes in this society but practical ones, or forfeit 3d. 3d Any Gentleman as gives another Gentleman the lie before strangers to forfeit 6d. 4th Any Gentleman as behaves ungenteel to be fined 3d and turn'd out. 5t All fines to be spent in punch W.C. Secretary.' In the centre two men, one wearing top-boots, the other in quasi-military dress, face each other, grinning. A third, with a pen and ink-horn at his buttonhole, tries to insinuate himself into the conversation. On the right a stout man stands at a table before a punch-bowl and a sugar-basin: his hands are folded and his eyes closed as if in prayer. Beside and behind him a man with a bottle of 'Rum' in one hand sniffs at a bottle of '[Bra]ndy'. An irate man (left) stands at the end of the table, watch in hand. Above the door a picture of a mounted huntsman hangs askew. On the wall are (left) hats and sticks, (right) a map of the world in two hemispheres."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and "Eamus. Quo ducit Gula."--Below title.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 26th, 1788, by W. Dickinson, engraver, No. 158 Bond Street
"Seneca sitting on the right, his feet in a basin of water, supported by two men, gesturing and looking to right towards two young men who take down his last teachings, one kneeling, while four others lean in attentively from the left, two with paper and quills, columns behind and richly dressed men with a soldier gathered among the columns in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Coat of arms engraved below image with the motto: Cor unum via una., Dedication below title: From the original picture ... in the collection of The Right Honourable the Earl of Exeter, to whom this plate is dedicated, by His Lordship's most obliged and most humble servant, John Boydell., Text below dedication in lower left: Size of the picture, 8 f. 4 i. by 10 f. 2 i. in length., Plate from: A collection of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in England. London: [J. Boydell, 1769], v. 1., and Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 50.
Publisher:
J. Boydell
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.,
Subject (Topic):
Suicides, Basins (Containers), Writing materials, Columns, and Soldiers
"A number of ladies (eleven in all) sit at a table at the head of which is their president or chairman. They are balloting for the admission of a member, according to the 'Authentic Rules of the Female Coterie' printed in the 'Gentleman's Magazine', 1770, p. 414, by which ladies balloted for men and men for ladies. The president sits in a raised chair, a hammer in her right hand; she says: "Mr Driver the New Member shall be admitted & duly return'd by me the proper Officer if upon examination he comes up to the Standard". Remarks from other ladies (left to right) are: "I hold up my hand for Mr Driver, if it had not been for him, several Noble Families would have been extinct that have now a numerous Issue"; "The ability of every Candidate ought to be strictly Examined"; "The Gentleman to be elected into this Society shall not be Husband to any of us"; "No our plan is to supply the deficiency of Husbands"; "I move for the Admission of Mr Driver as a Member. He has a promising Leg, an happy Assurance, & to crown the whole he is an Irishman"; "Lady H------n [Harrington] has her Reasons for not suffering Mr Driver to return to Ireland, but she must not Engross him all to herself". The lady on the President's right is writing in a large book. On the table are writing materials, books, one being 'Essay on Man', a bottle marked "Eau de Vie", a tray with coffee-pot, cups, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: The court and city magazine. London: Joseph Smith, v. 1 (1770)., Temporary local subject terms: The Female Coterie -- Dishes: coffee set -- Literature: Reference to Essay on man by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)., and Window mounted to 20 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Tables, Coffeepots, Coffee cups, Writing materials, and Books
"A family in a wealthy interior; an elderly man at centre, seated at a table, a glass in his left hand, holding out his right to receive coins from a younger man standing to left with his right hand on a book and a quill in his mouth; on the table, another glass, writing materials, coins and notes; to right, a woman ..., supporting, and holding up a bunch of grapes for, a young child standing on a chair; looking on from behind the chair, a boy and, at right, a black servant holding a bowl of fruit, his left hand on the chair; in front of the table, a young girl lying on the carpet with a spaniel; a shipping wharf seen through an open window to left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Fruits of early industry & oeconomy, Fruits of early industry and oeconomy, and Fruits of early industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: Lo here, what ease, what elegance you see, the just reward of youthfull industry ..., and Companion print to: The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness.
"A family in a wealthy interior; an elderly man at centre, seated at a table, a glass in his left hand, holding out his right to receive coins from a younger man standing to left with his right hand on a book and a quill in his mouth; on the table, another glass, writing materials, coins and notes; to right, a woman ..., supporting, and holding up a bunch of grapes for, a young child standing on a chair; looking on from behind the chair, a boy and, at right, a black servant holding a bowl of fruit, his left hand on the chair; in front of the table, a young girl lying on the carpet with a spaniel; a shipping wharf seen through an open window to left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Fruits of early industry & oeconomy, Fruits of early industry and oeconomy, and Fruits of early industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: Lo here, what ease, what elegance you see, the just reward of youthfull industry ..., Companion print to: The effects of youthful extravagance & idleness., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching ; sheet 67.3 x 54 cm., and Printed on wove paper, trimmed within plate mark.
