Title etched below image., Date and place of publication from item., 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: Cripples.
Publisher:
Publishd according to Act of Parliament August, 1760 ; A Paris chez Daumont rue St. Martin
Subject (Geographic):
Italy.
Subject (Name):
Spedale di S. Maria Nuova (Florence, Italy).
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Plazas, City & town life, People with disabilities, Peg legs, Carriages & coaches, and Families
Title etched below image., Below image center: Publishd according to Act of Parliament August, 1760., Place of publication supplied by curator., Above image, title reversed., A Vue d'optique., 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 (Name):
Spedale di S. Maria Nuova (Florence, Italy).
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Plazas, City & town life, and People with disabilities
"View looking towards the piazza from the end of King Street, with a side view of Lord Archer's house, two boys playing in street, other figures behind and to the left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802].
"View looking towards the piazza from the end of King Street, with a side view of Lord Archer's house, two boys playing in street, other figures behind and to the left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., 1 print : aquatint and etching, on wove paper ; sheet 357 x 274 mm, mounted to 40 x 30 cm., and Imperfect; imprint trimmed from bottom of plate and pasted below image in lower right.
"Bird's eye view of the square; a statue in centre of square, trees surrounding outside of square, which is cobbled with diagonal paved paths running in towards statue; a sedan chair to its left and a carriage to the right; a few elegantly dressed figures in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Plate from: Stow, J. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Plate numbered "21" in lower right corner., and Left half of sheet window mounted to 44 x 36 cm.; right half of sheet unmounted and previously folded over.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowes Survey
"From the bustle and life visible on all sides it would seem that the period is fair-time, when the rustics and agricultural population of the vicinity in general flock into the town, holiday-making. A travelling mountebank has established his theatre in the market place; the person of the ingenious charlatan is decked out in a fine court dress, with bag wig, powder, sword, and laced hat complete, the better to excite the respect of his audience; he is holding forth on the marvellous properties ascribed to the nostrums which he is seeking to palm off on the simple villagers as wonder-working elixirs; while his attendants, Merry Andrew and Jack Pudding, are going through their share of the performance. One branch of the mountebank physician's profession was the drawing of teeth; an unfortunate sufferer is submitting himself to the hands of the empiric's assistant. The rural audience is stolidly contemplating the antics of the party, without being particularly moved by Dr. Botherum's imposing eloquence, these vagabond scamps being frequently clever rogues, blessed with an inexhaustible fund of bewildering oratory, and witty repartee at glib command. Leaving the quack, we find plentiful and suggestive materials to employ the humourist's skilful graver scattered around. In the centre, a scene of jealousy is displayed; the beguilements of a portly butcher are prevailing against the assumed privileges of a slip-shod tailor, who is seemingly tempted to have recourse to his sheers, to cut the amorous entanglement summarily asunder. On the left, the promiscuous and greedy feeding associated with 'fairings,' is going busily forward, and on the opposite side are exhibited all the drolleries which can be got out of a Jew pedlar, his pack, the diversified actions of customers he is trying to tempt with his wares, and the bargains for finery into which the fair and softer sex are vainly trying to beguile the cunning Hebrew on their own accounts. It seems probable that Rowlandson in his print of Doctor Botherum may have had a certain Doctor Bossy in his eye, a German practitioner of considerable skill, who enjoyed a comfortable private practice, said to have been the last of the respectable charlatans who exhibited in the British metropolis. This benevolent empiric, as Angelo informs us, dispensed medicines and practised the healing art, publicly and gratuitously on a stage, his booth being erected weekly in the midst of Covent-Garden Market, where the mountebank, handsomely dressed and wearing a gold-laced cocked hat, arrived in his chariot with a liveried servant behind. According to the old custom, the itinerant quack-doctor, with his attendant gang, was as constant a visitor at every market-place as the pedlar with his pack."--Grego
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse below image, six on either side of title: High o'er the gaping crowd, on market day, while Andrew drolls the blockheads pence away ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mountebanks -- Tooth Extraction -- Dr. Bossey., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; sheet 373 x 433 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 6 March 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Teeth, Extraction, Jews, City & town life, Plazas, Medicine shows, Audiences, Crowds, Peddlers, and Butchers
The convicted traitor Robert Watt sits on an open sled being pulled by a horse through a city square. A man in a hat, perhaps the executioner, sits across from him holding an axe. Soldiers escort the sled through the crowd. In the distance on the right, a man stands on a platform outside the upper floor of a building and readies a noose
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: Exshaw's Gentleman's and London magazine. Dublin : J. Exshaw, October 1794., and Sheet mutilated along bottom edge with slight loss of text.
Publisher:
J. Exshaw
Subject (Geographic):
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Subject (Name):
Watt, Robert, -1794.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Executions, Plazas, and Sleds & sleighs
Romney, R., active approximately 1795-, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1795]
Call Number:
646 802 M243 v.4 pt.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In a square, horses in the foreground pulling the conspirators to a raised platform in the left middle ground for the execution, a number of spectators watching the event."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 20.4 x 27.2 cm., and Mounted before page 175 in volume 4 part 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
"Bird's eye view of the once fashionable Golden Square, after the alterations, showing a round lawn and central statue of George II with octagonal railings and lampstands, a sedan chair to the right, a carriage passing across central foreground, two further carriages travelling around the square"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Plate from: Stow, J. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55., and Plate numbered "25" in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowe's Survey
"View looking across the north side of the square; part of the circular garden area surrounded by iron railings on the right, elegantly dressed figures and carriages on street"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., and Mounted to 30 x 43 cm.
