"Bonaparte stands in a dispensary opening off a military hospital, conspiratorially giving orders to a slyly grinning doctor who shows him a bottle labelled 'Poison'. The general points to the hospital, separated from the dispensary by a curtain, where men, apparently moribund, lie on bedsteads. In the dispensary are jars, bottles, scales, pestle, and mortar; a small crocodile hangs from the roof (cf. British Museum Satires No. 11057). The most persistent of all 'atrocity' charges; certain plague-stricken French soldiers being given opium on the retreat from Acre in May 1799, see British Museum Satires No. 10063."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One of thirty plates from: The life of Napoleon, a hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos. London : Printed for T. Tegg, Wm. Allason ; Edinburgh : J. Dick, 1815., See also: W. Helfand, "The poisoning of the sick at Jaffa", Veröffentlichungen der Internat. Ges. für Geschichte der Pharmazie, neue Folge, volume 42, Wissenschaftl. Verlagsges. Stuttgart, 1975., and See further: Raymond Crawfurd, Plague and pestilence in literature and art, Oxford 1914, pages 200-211.
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Published by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Israel. and Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Plague, Soldiers, Poisoning, Poisons, Peste, Hospitals, Interiors, Military hospitals, Sick persons, Physicians, Mortars & pestles, Scales, and Crocodiles
Title supplied by curator. Alternate title from item., Date supplied by curator., Below title: Paroles de David pendant la peste que sa vanité avoit attiree sur Israel. 2.des Rois 24., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
chez François Chereau graveur du Roy rue St. Jacques aux deux pilliers d'Or 24
Subject (Geographic):
Epirus (Greece and Albania).
Subject (Name):
David, King of Israel.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine in the Bible, Plague, Fires, Death, Communicable diseases, Dead persons, Dead animals, Prayer, Grief, Angels, Smoke, and Sick persons
Latin prose version, ascribed to Bengt Knutsson, of the French rhymed tract on the plague by Joannes Jacobi (Jean Jacmé)., Yale Med copy has a modern English binding by Riviere. Described by Scott Husby, 2010., and An 8th leaf (blank) is wanting in Yale Med copy
Title and text in lower margin in Latin and German., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., In margin lower center: Cum Priv. Sac. Caes. Maj., The church and monastery depicted were located in Vienna, Austria. The church was erected after the Great Plague of Vienna in 1679., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Vienna (Austria).
Subject (Topic):
Church buildings, Monasteries, Plague, and City & town life
Title and date from item., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by J Stratford 112 Holborn Hill
Subject (Topic):
Plague, Great Plague, London, England, 1664-1666, Grief, Dead persons, Sick persons, and Litters
Title etched below image., From: William Thornton, The New... Survey of Churches of the Cities of London..., London: A. Hogg, 1784., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by Alexr. Hogg at the Kings Arms No.16 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Plague, Mass burials, Dead persons, Pipe smoking, Grave digging, Horses, and Carts & wagons
"Men with a plague-cart burying victims at night in a field, one to left using a long hooked pole to pull the corpses from the cart into a pit; in a neo-classical frame; illustration to Barnard's 'History of England'." -- from British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., Printmaker and place of publication derived from version in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Plague, Mass burials, Dead persons, Night, Pipe smoking, Grave digging, Horses, and Carts & wagons
Title etched below image., In border above image: Engraved for Harrison's History of London., From: Walter Harrison, A New and Universal History of London, London: J. Cooke, 1775., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
J. Cooke
Subject (Topic):
Plague, Mass burials, Dead persons, Pipe smoking, Grave digging, Horses, and Carts & wagons
Title from text above image., Date derived from date of plague of mice described in text: so sich den 1 Septembr. dieses 1675 Jahrs bey Brochdorn ..., 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Plague, Medicine, Religious aspects, Mice, Croplands, Horses, and Villages
