Title engraved above image., Earlier lettering burnished from plate and replaced with verse of this edition., Impressed on one sheet with three columns of letterpress., Four lines of verse in Dutch within design: De rouw van harlekin is droevig ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Bellows -- Mythology -- Symbols: Mercury's Caduceus -- Harlequin., Watermark., Title translation on verso of mount: Harlequin and Bombario in mourning., and Mounted to 45 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Law, John, 1671-1729
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Mercury, and Harlequin (Fictitious character)
"A quack doctor (right) stands outside his house surrounded by a pyramid of bottles inscribed 'Velnos Syrup', one of which he holds up, demonstrating its virtues with a complacent smile to a band of rival practitioners (left) who are furiously threatening his barricade. Behind his head is inscribed : 'List of Cures \ In 1788,5,000 \ In 1789, 10,000'. The house is at the corner of 'Frith Street'; it has a porch inscribed in large letters 'Mr Swainson N. 21'. A surgeon threatens Swainson with a knife, raising also a leg to kick. A second surgeon kneels on one knee, also holding a knife and glaring ferociously; beside him is a basket of surgeon's instruments. Behind him is a man who directs an enormous syringe at the self-satisfied Swainson. An old man wearing spectacles holds up a 'Pill Box'. These assailants are dominated by a very stout man in the rear who holds up a pestle in one hand, in the other a mortar inscribed 'Mercury the only Specific'. Above his head is poised a nude Mercury holding a caduceus and urging on the attacking force."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vegetable intrenchment and Vegetable entrenchment
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue and Grego., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Proprietary medicines -- Velnos Syrup.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 29, 1789, by W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Swainson, Isaac, 1746-1812
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Interpersonal confrontation, Physicians, Mercury, Patent medicines, Bottles, Sculpture, Medical equipment & supplies, and Mortars & pestles
"Satire on the Stamp Tax of 1765 showing Britannia presenting "Pandoras Box" (the tax) to America (represented by a native American) who appeals to Minerva; the goodess advises "Take it not" pointing to Liberty prostrate on the ground and attacked by a snake and a thistle. Mercury (standing for Trade) turns to America saying, "It is with Reluctance I leave ye" as he moves towards the king of France who, in turn, offers a purse of money to an irradiated boot (Lord Bute). Above a zephyr blows forcefully towards the tree of Liberty beside which stands a man saying "Heaven grant it may stand" beside whom a crown and sceptre lie on the ground. In the background, sailors stand on a shore beside three ships one with a broom at its masthead indicating that it is for sale; one points towards a gibbet labelled, "Fit Entertainment for St[am]p M[e]n"; a group of men beside the gibbet, identified by Stephens as Stamp Men or excisemen, complain, "We shall all Starve", "By G[o]d I'll rob first!, "Ay, ay, necessity has no Law"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sc---h government and Scotch government
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from The gazetteer and new daily advertiser. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., In lower right corner: Price 6d., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: America as a native man -- Liberty -- Loyalty -- Mythology -- Pandora's box -- Acts: Stamp Act, 1765 -- Emblems: Caduceus; cap of liberty; thistle as Scotch influence; serpent as treachery; boot as Lord Bute -- Emblems: Boreas as Lord North -- Liberty Tree -- Mercury as commerce -- Ships for sale, with broom at the mast-head -- Purse with money., and Mounted to 22 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Mercury, and Minerva
Photographs compiled by an unidentified compiler of the Black Butte Mine in Lane County, Oregon, 1910-1920. Depicted are the mining camp and unidentified miners in mines or at mine shaft entrances. The only photograph with a caption is of an illustration done by artist Edward Lange of the Black Butte Mining District
Description:
The Black Butte Mine, a mercury mine in Lane County, Oregon, was in operation from the 1890s until the late 1960s., Caption in English., Title devised by cataloger., and Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., Oregon, and Lane County (Or.)
Subject (Name):
Lange, Edward, 1846-1912. and Black Butte Mine.
Subject (Topic):
Mercury, Mercury mines and mining, Miners, Mines and mineral resources, and Mining camps
