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1. Doctor Botherum, the mountebank [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [6 March 1800]
Call Number:: Print10026
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Doctor Botherum, the mountebank [graphic].

2. Doctor Botherum, the mountebank [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [6 March 1800]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 7
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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 Mounted on leaf 32 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doctor Botherum, the mountebank [graphic].

3. Hotel d'Hambourgh, Quartiere St. Germain a Paris [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 42. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Print of a town square with a two storeyed building on the left (Hotel D'hambourgh) and a low stable like building facing the viewer. In the centre stand various figures including a monk riding in a carriage. Another monk is seen buying potatoes at a market. A group of troubadours attract the attention of a woman from an upper window of the building on the left."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810367., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 42 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):: France and Paris.
Subject (Topic):: City & town life, Buildings, Plazas, Carriages & coaches, and Monks
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Hotel d'Hambourgh, Quartiere St. Germain a Paris [graphic]

4. Markett [sic] place at Cambridge [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 71. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Markett place at Cambridge, Market place at Cambridge, and Marketplace at Cambridge
Description:: Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 408., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 71 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:: Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):: Cambridge (England)
Subject (Topic):: Plazas, Buildings, Teachers, Students, Academic costumes, and Street vendors
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Markett [sic] place at Cambridge [graphic]

5. Execution of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot in the year 1606 [graphic]

Creator:: 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.
Publisher:: Published May 1, 1795, by I. Caulfield
Subject (Topic):: Gunpowder Plot, 1605, Criminals, Punishment & torture, Executions, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), Spectators, and Plazas
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Execution of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot in the year 1606 [graphic]

6. [View of Piazza della Signoria in Florence with the Grand Duke's military guard] [art original].

Creator:: Patch, Thomas, 1725-1782, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1782]
Call Number:: Drawings P294 no. 1 Box D205
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A small audience sitting on benches on a tribune next to the equestrian statue of Cosimo I de' Medici in Piazza della Signoria, watching a military parade of the guards of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorena (1765-1790), son of the Empress Maria Theresa of Habsburg and brother of Joseph II. The soldiers, forming an L-shaped cordon and led by four battalion officers, are recognizable by their tricorns and the bayonets. At the center of the square, under the grand building of Palazzo Vecchio, stands a troop of drummers. Figures in the the foreground include a group of cavalrymen bearing a banner and followed by a cart on the right; a lady and gentleman waiting for a landau carriage at center; and a figure, maybe a soldier on look-out, watching the scene in Palazzo Uguccioni's shadow on the left
Description:: Title and artist attribution from dealer's description. and Date based on artist's death date.
Subject (Geographic):: Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):: Piazza della Signoria (Florence, Italy), and Palazzo vecchio (Florence, Italy),
Subject (Topic):: Plazas, Equestrian statues, Military parades & ceremonies, Spectators, and Carriages & coaches
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [View of Piazza della Signoria in Florence with the Grand Duke's military guard] [art original].

7. A view of the hospital and piazza of St. Mary at Florence [graphic]

Creator:: Parr, Nathaniel, -1751, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 1750]
Call Number:: Topos It88 no. 1+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "View of the Piazza of the Annunziata looking south."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on earlier state with "Publish'd according to act of Parliament, August 1, 1750" etched below image. See British Museum online catalogue., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image., and Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner.
Publisher:: Printed for R. Sayer, facing Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):: Italy and Florence.
Subject (Topic):: Plazas and Hospitals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A view of the hospital and piazza of St. Mary at Florence [graphic]

8. Devonshire Square [graphic]

Creator:: Nicholls, Sutton, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1754]
Call Number:: Topos L847 no. 25+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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
Subject (Geographic):: London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):: Plazas
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Devonshire Square [graphic]

9. Golden Square [graphic]

Creator:: Nicholls, Sutton, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1754]
Call Number:: Topos L847 no. 28+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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
Subject (Geographic):: London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):: Plazas
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Golden Square [graphic]

10. Grovenor Square [graphic].

Creator:: Nicholls, Sutton, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1754.
Call Number:: Topos L847 no. 35+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Bird's eye view over Grosvenor Square, looking north; a circular garden area in centre of square with an equestrian statue and pathways between sections of shrubbery and lawn; beyond the square to the north fields continue into the distance with two small villages on hills; sedan chairs, carriages and elegantly dressed figures in square"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Grosvenor Square
Description:: Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Attribution to Nicholls from the British Museum online catalogue., Plate from: A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark ... / Written at first in the year 1598, by John Stow ... London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55., and Plate numbered "14" in lower right corner.
Publisher:: Published according to act of Parliament for Stow's Survey
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Topic):: Plazas, Carriages & coaches, and Sedan chairs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Grovenor Square [graphic].