Title from item., Place of publication derived from language of text., Above title: V., From: Les Metamorphoses du jour, first published 1828-1829. Edition not identified., 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: Pharmacies, interior; Compounding of Drugs.
"Long, dressed as a funeral mute or mourner, stands full-face, legs apart, carrying four large boards like a sandwich-man (then "board-man"). Only his draped hat and eyes appear above the central board. In his hand is a staff draped in black which is inscribed 'Killing No Murder' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 11371]. At his feet are many ducks, all angrily quacking: 'quack!!'; 'quack!!!'; or (one) 'cruel quack'. He says, quoting a nursery rhyme, 'Come, Dilly, Dilly, Dilly, come and be killed!!!' The principal board is headed 'To the Public', with the Royal Arms. Inscriptions: 'A Receipt of my Grandmothers | Decline Arrested | Consumption prevented | A Cure for all diseases | By The Simple | process of | Skinning Alive | protected by the | NOBILITY | and a House-Full of | Ladies | of the first Distinction | Dr Needy, Harley-Street | NO QUACKERY'. On both flanking boards are a grinning skull and cross-bones inscribed 'momento [sic] mori'; on one (left) are wine-glasses, tankard, and bottle and 'A Short Life and a Merry one'; (right) 'N.B. . Short Accounts make LONG Friends'. Behind is a funeral procession with two coffins, preceded by a duck. This passes the railings of a London square. Behind are houses, on one of which is a hatchment, and a church-steeple on which prances a tiny devil flourishing a trident."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Oracle of Harley Street
Description:
Title etched below image., Second title etched above image: The Oracle of Harley Street., Signed at bottom of plate with the initials "J.D.R." followed by a depiction of an artist's palette., Possibly etched by 'Sharpshooter' (the pseduonym of John Phillips); see British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consumption -- Funerals -- Manslaughter -- Drugs.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Long, John St. John, 1798-1834
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Malpractice, Quacks, Signs (Notices), and Ducks
"'Cits' (i.e. citizens) ride (left to right) (types of vulgar horsemanship, cf. BMSats 7233, 7242) in a cloud of dust, following a crowded stage-coach inscribed 'To the Races'. A rough two-wheeled cart, crammed with a family party, is drawn by a cantering pony. A signpost points 'To the Race Ground'. A suburban setting is given by the country box and 'grounds' of a 'cit', with a notice-board: 'Spring Blunderbusss on a new Construction - Planted in Various Paths of my Domain & whosown Trample Down or pull up the Shrubs in this Garden shall be Prosecuted - Deputy Dump'. In front of the house the owner (?) and his wife look over the paling at the race-goers. The house is a square box, whose small scale is indicated by the size of a pot-plant on the flat roof; on this are also figures of Neptune, Harlequin, and Mercury. Adjacent (left) is a shed inscribed 'Mr Dumps Stables', with a pretentious cupola."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Feby. 1, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
London (England),
Subject (Topic):
City council members, Dogs, Ducks, Stagecoaches, Signs (Notices), and Spouses
Leaf 11. London and its environs about 1750. Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View down the canal in the park, looking towards Buckingham House, trees on either side, fashionably dressed figures in foreground in park, a few ducks on the water."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vü̈e du canal et de la Maison de Buckingham dans le Parc de St. James
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2277., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of his Majesty's palaces and royal hospitals, and other public buildings in London, &c.", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 87, no. 9., Imperfect; plate number erased from sheet and replaced with number "10" written in ink. Missing number supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 11 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Saint James's Park (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Parks, Canals, Castles & palaces, Pedestrians, Trees, and Ducks
Leaf 11. London and its environs about 1750. Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View down the canal in the park, looking towards Buckingham House, trees on either side, fashionably dressed figures in foreground in park, a few ducks on the water."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vü̈e du canal et de la Maison de Buckingham dans le Parc de St. James
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2277., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of his Majesty's palaces and royal hospitals, and other public buildings in London, &c.", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 87, no. 9., Imperfect; plate number erased from sheet and replaced with number "10" written in ink. Missing number supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner., 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper ; sheet 16.2 x 26.2 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 55 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Saint James's Park (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Parks, Canals, Castles & palaces, Pedestrians, Trees, and Ducks
"Two men sit in a dilapidated room, the floor completely covered by water in which three pigs wade, ducks swim and dive, and geese run aggressively towards a dog. Their feet rest on boulders. One stout man in a broken chair sits with his elbows on a small round table, holding up a large watch, the hands showing that it is 9.40, and yawning deeply. On the table are a decanter containing a tiny 'blue devil', cf. British Museum Satires No. 8745, and a guttering candle stuck in a potato at which a rat is nibbling. Another rat runs up the table leg. The other man (right), with closed eyes, and hands on knees, sits on a stool, registering melancholy resignation. One pig (left) devours a 'Racing Calendar' which floats on the water. A fire of sticks burns smokily on a wide hearth; a large pot is overturning, the contents gushing over. Above the chimney-piece hangs a picture in a broken frame of a country house. There is one small casement window, half boarded up, the other half partly stuffed up with a pair of breeches. A ham and a hare hang from hooks in the ceiling. High up on the wall is a small shelf on which is broken china; a cat stands on it."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Possibly etched after a design by Bunbury; see British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"Two men sit in a dilapidated room, the floor completely covered by water in which three pigs wade, ducks swim and dive, and geese run aggressively towards a dog. Their feet rest on boulders. One stout man in a broken chair sits with his elbows on a small round table, holding up a large watch, the hands showing that it is 9.40, and yawning deeply. On the table are a decanter containing a tiny 'blue devil', cf. British Museum Satires No. 8745, and a guttering candle stuck in a potato at which a rat is nibbling. Another rat runs up the table leg. The other man (right), with closed eyes, and hands on knees, sits on a stool, registering melancholy resignation. One pig (left) devours a 'Racing Calendar' which floats on the water. A fire of sticks burns smokily on a wide hearth; a large pot is overturning, the contents gushing over. Above the chimney-piece hangs a picture in a broken frame of a country house. There is one small casement window, half boarded up, the other half partly stuffed up with a pair of breeches. A ham and a hare hang from hooks in the ceiling. High up on the wall is a small shelf on which is broken china; a cat stands on it."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly etched after a design by Bunbury; see British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 24.4 x 34 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Mounted on page 24.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Title from item., Place of publication derived from printer's place of residence., Date derived from text below title: Der Albrecht Dürer-Verein Seinen Mitgliedern im Jahre 1839 ; Das Original-Gemalde besitzt Herr Cassier Merlein., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Uroscopy., and Blind stamp.
Publisher:
Druck v. Carl Mayer
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Rural, Urine, Analysis, Children, Diseases, Shepherds, Country life, Mothers, Sick persons, and Ducks
Title etched below image., 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.
Volume 2, page 89. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two ovals on the same plate, in the left image a woman stands to front with an empty basket on her arm, a figure on horseback heading to front on a path in the distance at left, a steeple over the trees beyond, at right the same woman walks away from the viewer with her basket full of chickens and ducks, the man now walking beside his laden animal on the road beyond; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below images., "Second published state after alteration of date"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.2964., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 89 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 1, 1795, by J. Thane, Spur Street, Leicester Square
