"The patient sits in an armchair in profile to the left, in the centre of a well-furnished room. He wears dressing-gown and nightcap, his arms are folded and he stares fixedly, assailed by ghostly visions which float before his eyes, emerging from smo...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Hypochondria, Depression, Mental, Suicide, Skeletons, Hearses, Demons, Daggers & swords, Handguns, Physicians, Staffs (Sticks), and Medicines
"The patient sits in an armchair in profile to the left, in the centre of a well-furnished room. He wears dressing-gown and nightcap, his arms are folded and he stares fixedly, assailed by ghostly visions which float before his eyes, emerging from smo...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Hypochondria, Depression, Mental, Suicide, Skeletons, Hearses, Demons, Daggers & swords, Handguns, Physicians, Staffs (Sticks), and Medicines
Mansergh, R. St. George, active 1772-1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[15 January 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 20. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left, a duelist has walked away from his opponent to take his place. He stops, his pistol pointed away from the scene, and looks behind in surprise as the other duelist, leaning heavily on his tasselled cane, appears to be ready to faint. On th...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act by MDarly, Jany. 15th, 1772, (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Dueling, Handguns, Loss of consciousness, Medicines, Obesity, and Staffs (Sticks)
A rotund man on the right, wearing a hat and a long coat with a bottle in the pocket, holds a pistol in the face of a frightened John Bull figure with a cane on the left. The threatening man holds out a document entitled "An act for the more severe ob...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Handguns, Threats, Bottles, Documents, Staffs (Sticks), and Fear
"A representation (not caricatured) of the duel between the Duke of York and Lennox on Wimbledon Common on 26 May. Lennox (left) fires at the Duke, who fires in the air. Above the Duke's head is written (in ink) 'Fire again Sir'. The two seconds stand...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. May 27, 1789 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1764-1819., Winchilsea, George Finch, Earl of, 1752-1826., Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826., and Wimbledon Common (Wimbledon, London, England),
The twelfth drawing in a series of twelve that follow a tradition of producing a series on modern morals, a tradition established earlier in the 18th century by artists such as William Hogarth. In this series, twin brothers are bestowed an equal fortu...
