"Scene outside a large apothecary's shop, both windows filled with large coloured jars. Above the door is the sign, a terrestrial globe on which scales are balanced. Outside, a doctor in old-fashioned dress, acts as usher with a long wand to a band of naked infants (left) who run eagerly towards him. In the jars fœtuses are indicated. Outside the other window stands an undertaker holding up his professional staff and doffing a hat draped with a mourning scarf towards a skeleton who advances from the background (right). Behind the skeleton is a church among trees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with text "The World!" removed from lower margin and added (without exclamation mark) to the shop sign within image. Text beginning "Accoucheurs & apothecaries ..." below image has also been re-etched. For earlier state before these changes to the plate, see no. 14584 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies.
Publisher:
Pub. June 29, 1823, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Drugstores, Storefronts, Globes, Scales, Signs (Notices), Physicians, Infants, Containers, Undertakers, Staffs (Sticks), Skeletons, and Churches
A drawing of a table covered with papers and books. A globe is to the left, and a quill pen in an inkwell to the right. Behind the table is a chair and a large bookshelf filled with books.
In the upper portion of the bookplate is a large circle featuring an image of a globe with a large leafy tree growing at the top pole. Surrounding this is a border designed to look like a belt with a buckle. Within the border is the motto Veritas de Terra Orta Est. Further below, under the name of the plate's owner (and title text) reads If thou art borrowed by a friend right welcome shall he be to read, to study, not to lend but to return to me.
In between two columns and large flaming lanterns is an image of the Earth. Behind this is a starry and partly cloudy sky with a full moon. At the center is an open book with the quote "'May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus the Phoenicians or whoever it was that invented books.' Carlyle". Beneath the entire image, in blue ink, is the signature of Joseph Cort. Cort received a PhD from Yale in 1951.
A drawing of a man writing in a ledger while looking out of a window at a ship on the high seas. On the desk is a telephone, a globe, and some additional books. On either side of the image is a caduceus..
Subject (Name):
Bunts, Frank Emory, 1861-1928 and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Brain, Caduceus, Globes, Physicians, Scientific apparatus and instruments, and Ships
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 Hortensius, Martinus, 1605-1639
Published / Created:
Anno Dom. 1665.
Call Number:
QB41 B52 1665
Image Count:
206
Description:
Madan 2694 (not seen); presumably a reissue of the 1663 edition (Madan 2632, also not seen), with a new cancelling title page., Signatures: [a]1A-Aa8., and Title-page in two states, cancelling (1st preliminary leaf) and cancelled (2nd preliminary leaf; lower outer corner, including imprint-date [1663?], missing).
Publisher:
Excudebat W. Hall impensis Joh. Forrest,
Subject (Name):
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 and Ptolemy, 2nd cent.
"Episode from Butler's 'Hudibras', after Hogarth; four men around table in interior, one in rich clothes sitting beneath canopy and writing document, gesticulating at the three others, who look shocked; globe and papers in centre at base of table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Early state, with text "from an original in the possession of Mr. Vincent" present. For a later state with this text removed and with imprint statement re-engraved, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,3.154., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Oct. 1, 1782, by T. Gaugain, No. 4 Little Compton Street, London