A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Doctor Rock (Richard Rock 1690-1777) was an itinerant medicine vendor who frequented the London areas of St. Pauls and Covent Garden. He was famous for his "anti-venereal, grand, specifick pill". He was satirised in several caricatures: W. Hogarth represented him in A harlot's progress pl. V; The march to Finchley; and The four times of the day, morning and "A fashionably-dressed man kneels in profile to the left at a large chest of 'Patent Medecines', on which is a duck with the inscription 'Quack. Quack. Quack' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 5766]. A hanging candelabra and a festooned curtain indicate wealth. He prays to the shade of Dr. Rock, describes the composition of his famous Vegetable Drops, and asks for the continuance of 'my Carriages and Equipage, my Town and Country Residence, and all other good things of this life ...'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Publisher from imprints present on other plates in the series. For information on the series, see page 51 in v. 8. of the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Date of publication from Grego., and Twenty-one lines of letterpress text below title: Illustrious shade of the renowned Dr. Rock, still continue, I beseech thee ...
Publisher:
R. Ackermann and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Rock, Richard, 1690-1777 and Doctor Botherum.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Selling, Drugs, Medicine, Chests, Ducks, Costume, Candelabra, Draperies, Prayer, Quacks, and Patent medicines
Date of publication from ESTC., Joshua Davenport at this address 1800-1802 (Maxted)., First line reads: Sweet dear and loving wife., In six columns with the title and a woodcut above the first three; the columns are separated by decorative borders., Mounted on leaf 64. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Davenport, 6, George's Court, St. John's Lane, West Smithfield, London
Subject (Topic):
Christian poetry, English, Poverty, Christianity, Ballads, English, Prayer, Poor persons, Fireplaces, and Children
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A wife has chased her husband out of the house and comes up behind him, holding a broom above her head, ready to strike. He has stopped to pray, hands clasped in front of his chest. Through the open door of their house a chair and some shelves can be seen; a set of antlers hangs above the doorway. The face of another person is visible in a second-story window; they peer out at the scene, amused
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink below image., Signed in upper right corner with the artist's initials., Date from local card catalog record., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., 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.
Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498-approximately 1580, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1580]
Call Number:
Print00918
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., From: The Loves, Rages, and Jealousies of Juno., Trimmed within plate mark., 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):
Childbirth, Mythology, Births, Midwives, Infants, Mothers, and Prayer
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from presence of umlaut in image text., Possibly a restrike., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Religion & medicine; Demons & devils., and Stamp verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death, Religious aspects, Christianity, Queens, Kings, Demons, Saints, Sick persons, Deathbeds, Martyrs, Knives, and Prayer
Volume 1, page 182.1. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A drawing in four compartments, two in a row and each labeled: In the upper left, the knight "William de la Zuche, 1280" is shown in profile to the left, kneeling and praying, a dagger hanging from his belt and with a scroll starting at his mouth with the words "Miserere Mei Deus". On the upper right "Alicia de Wolvey, 1326" is shown standing and facing the viewer, with shoulder-length hair, dressed in a long gown and holding up an armorial shield in each hand. In the lower left, "Maud Baroness Clifford, 1370" is shown kneeling and with hands in prayer holding a rosary, turned slightly left; she wears a bonnet and cape. In the lower right, the knight "Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, 1312" faces the viewer, wearing armor and a helmet, his hands clasped in prayer
Alternative Title:
From Dugdale's History of Warwickshire
Description:
Title devised by curator; alternative title written in ink below image., Statement of responsibility written in ink on mounting sheet, below lower right corner of image., Presumably copied from illustrations by Wenceslaus Hollar from: Dugdale, W. The antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated. London : Printed by Thomas VVarren, in the year of our Lord God, 1656., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted on page 182.1 in volume 1 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Title, date of creation, and state supplied by curator., "Forain" in pencil lower right margin., Place of creation based on artist's place of residence., 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: Miracle cures.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Lourdes, Our Lady of., Miracles, Spiritual healing, Catholic Church, Healing, Prayer, Crutches, Sick persons, People with disabilities, and Litters
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Grego., Six lines of quoted verse below design: "After supper of heaven I dream, but that is fatt pullets & clouted cream ..., Companion print to: The holy friar., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leaf 59. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
After supper of heaven I dream ...
Description:
Title and printmaker from Grego., Six lines of quoted verse below design: "After supper of heaven I dream, but that is fatt pullets & clouted cream ..., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published 6 May 1807, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 72-3., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Companion print to: The holy friar., and On leaf 59 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
