With the Tower of London visible in the background, a quack doctor on a platform holds up a bottle of medicine before a small crowd of city folk, as his assistant passes out handbills. Among the crowd is a carter with his whip, a chimney sweep's boy, and an obese woman. On the platform behind the doctor are several invalids, including a man with a crutch. A sign attached to the platform reads "Doctor Van Cheatall."
Description:
Title from item., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Numbered "11" in plate., and Probably an earlier version of no. 6757 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Tower of London (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Patent medicines, Sick persons, Quacks, Clothing & dress, Crowds, and City & town life
"A balloon about to rise from the ground encircled by three tiers of galleries or narrow platforms, protected by railings. Behind the railings sit the passengers. In the highest tier are three ladies notorious at that time for their amours ...: Grace Elliott or Eliot, née Dalrymple, known as 'Dally the tall', she holds a fan, turning her head in profile to the left, towards Perdita (Mary Robinson), who clasps her hands ecstatically; Lady Worsley sits on the right. In the centre gallery sit ex-ministers: North (left) and Fox (right) in the centre, North's arm on Fox's shoulder; Fox turns his head to North with an expression of satisfaction. Each rests his right hand on the railing in front of him, and these hands hold an inconspicuous thread which is attached to the nose of the Duke of Portland (left), who turns in profile to the right. On the right, a little apart, sits Burke dressed as a Jesuit (see British Museum Satires No. 6205) looking in profile to the right towards the Pope, who stands on the gallery, emerging from behind the curve of the balloon. He wears furred robes and his triple crown; as a pendant to him on the extreme left is the Devil looking towards the ministers with a pleased expression; over his arm he holds a net. In the lowest gallery sit celebrated quacks and other London characters. These are (left to right) "Vestina', the goddess of Health who advertised the virtues of the celestial bed (incorrectly said to have been Lady Hamilton), sits next her employer, Dr. Graham; they look at each other; she holds a sceptre wreathed with a garland. Jeffery Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat, stands, knock-kneed, with his sack over his shoulder in his accustomed attitude when calling 'old wigs'. Sam House sits resting a foaming tankard of porter on the railing in front of him, the tankard inscribed "House Ward[our] Stre[eet]". Katerfelto, turned in profile to the right, gazes up at the moon through his telescope; in his left hand is a paper, "Wonders, Wonders Most Wonderfull Wonders", the usual heading of his advertisements, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6162. His black cat sits on the railing facing him, saying, "are there Mice in the Moon Master". In the upper right corner of the design is the moon, a crescent-shaped profile inset in a circle, looking down at the balloon. The balloon is encircled longitudinally by eight ropes which meet in a knot beneath it and are there attached to four stouter ropes attached to the four corners of a platform which rests on the ground, from which the balloon appears about to ascend. On this platform is a tub inscribed "Vanity", bubbling over with soapsuds inscribed "Froth". Beside the platform (right) stands a Frenchman capering on one leg and flourishing a knife. He says, "Oh Begar dis be von fine Cargo." ... In the background are the roofs and spires of London, St. Paul's being prominent on the left, the Monument on the right. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Hanibal Scratch" might be a pseudonym of John Nixon; see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, page 842., Text beneath title: Setts out from Swan with two Necks Lad Lane every Monday morg., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Twenty lines of verse in four columns below image, etched above and on either side of title: Who choose a journey to the Moon, may take it in our Stage Balloon ...
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 23, 1783, by Wm. Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Elliott, Grace Dalrymple, -1823, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, Worsley, Seymour Dorothy, Lady, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799, Graham, James, 1745-1794, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, House, Samuel, -1785, Katterfelto, Gustavus, -1799, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Title etched above image., Publisher identified from address., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: This doctor from North Britain came, to eat & learn is [i.e., his] trade ..., Temporary local subject terms: Slogans: 'cat's paw', i.e., a person used as a tool by another -- Clubs: Independent Electors of Westminster -- ABuildings: College of Physicians -- Vehicles: open carriage -- Jacobites -- Quackery -- Emblems: cradle -- Zanies -- Reference to Edward Vernon, 1684-1757., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
May's Buildings
Subject (Name):
Thompson, Thomas, 1708?-1773
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, Carriages & coaches, Quacks, Horses, and Apes
"Dr. James Graham, the famous quack, stands on a small platform or pedestal, addressing an audience of both sexes who sit and stand in front of him. He stands rather to the right of the design looking left, his right hand raised, his left holding a rolled paper as in British Museum satire no. 6324. He wears a bag-wig and ruffled shirt. Those of the audience whose faces are visible are probably portraits, but only Fox, Wilkes, and (?) Perdita Robinson can be identified. Three persons sit on a raised seat immediately under the lecturer and with their backs towards him: a young man puts his arm round a lady who draws back with a coy expression; the third is Fox who sits gloomily impassive, his head supported on his hand, perhaps annoyed at the way in which Mrs. Robinson looks towards the man standing next her, who stands on the extreme right in profile to the left. He is slim and wears the fashionable riding-dress but is very ugly. Two rows of people sit on forms facing the lecturer. Others stand on the left. Wilkes is in profile to the right, an elderly beau with receding hair, sunken eyes, and broken teeth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Docter himself pouring out his whole soul for 1 s. and Doctor himself pouring out his whole soul for 1 s.
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of verse below title: How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue, how sweet his lectures neither sd. nor sung. Pope., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Dr. Graham and Capt. Topham are identified in black ink contemporary hand, perhaps that of James Gillray., and Mounted to: 38 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 12, 1783, by R. Rusted, No. 3 Bridge St., Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Graham, James, 1745-1794, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Title from caption etched above image., Reversed copy, with changes in title, of the etching illustrating No. 3917 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Outdoor stage: mountebank's stage -- Arms of the City of London -- Emblems: spear and cap of Liberty -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Personifications: France as an ape -- Shields: Britannia's shield with Scotch thistle and Cross of St. Andrew's -- Emblems: Scotch thistle -- Clyster pipe -- Dutchmen -- Spaniards.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Ethnic stereotypes, Medical equipment & supplies, National emblems, Quacks, and Vomiting
Title from item., Reduced and reversed copy of: The evacuations, or, An emetic for Old England glorys. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '44' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Outdoor stage: mountebank's stage -- Arms of the City of London -- Emblems: spear and cap of Liberty -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Personifications: France as an ape -- Shields: Britannia's shield with Scotch thistle and Cross of St. Andrew's -- Emblems: Scotch thistle -- Medical: clyster pipe -- Dutchmen -- Spaniards., and Mounted to 25 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792,, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Medical equipment & supplies, Quacks, and Vomiting
Leaf 80. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Man, whole length, seated full face. In his right hand he holds out a drawing of a curiously-shaped chair inscribed "Stool for the Piles". In his left he holds a drawing of a piece of furniture resembling a wardrobe inscribed "Fume". From his pocket protrudes a paper, "To [h]is Excellency] The ... an Emb[as]sador". On the ground are broken medicine phials. Bundles of dried herbs hang from a cord. He is dressed in a three-cornered hat, tightly curled short wig, coat and laced waistcoat with a ruffled shirt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "v. 4" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner., First of three plates on leaf 80., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 12.6 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act Augt. 12th, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, and Quacks
Leaf 80. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Man, whole length, seated full face. In his right hand he holds out a drawing of a curiously-shaped chair inscribed "Stool for the Piles". In his left he holds a drawing of a piece of furniture resembling a wardrobe inscribed "Fume". From his pocket protrudes a paper, "To [h]is Excellency] The ... an Emb[as]sador". On the ground are broken medicine phials. Bundles of dried herbs hang from a cord. He is dressed in a three-cornered hat, tightly curled short wig, coat and laced waistcoat with a ruffled shirt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "v. 4" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act Augt. 12th, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, and Quacks
"A satiricial broadside on Hans Buling, a Dutch mountebank in London; with an engraving partly after Marcellus Laroon, showing an interior with the quack doctor Buling on the left, bearded and dressed in an elaborate costume with cape, a broad collar and soft-brimmed hat, holding in his right hand a sheet of paper, in his left a small medicine bottle, at his feet to the left a medical chest, bottles, spatulas, and at his feet to his right a monkey; in the right background a curtain from which a Merry Andrew emerges, dressed in a Harlequin costume; with engraved title and verses in two columns."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Quack doctor
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of verse, separated with ornamental border, below image: See! Sirs, see here! A doctor rare ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Medicine: phial -- Animals -- Chest of medicine -- Mountebanks -- Hans Buling, fl. 1670.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Quacks, Medical equipment & supplies, and Monkeys
A crowd of people, most wearing Scotch plaid, stand before a mountebank's stage, holding out their hands to the charlatan, a caricature of Lord Bute who holds bags of money. Behind him on the floor of the stage is a chest filled with more bags of money. A woman in a Welsh hat, the Princess of Wales, looks out from the curtains of a bed in the back of the stage and listens with pleasure. A tall quack (T. Smollet) wears a fool's cap, a hornbook hangs from his girdle, and the newspapers The Briton rolled under his arm; at his feet are other copies of The North Briton and The Monitor
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered in upper right corner: "Brit. Antidote. Pl. 20.", Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 20., Bowditch's transcription of E. Truman's note on the mounting sheet; "Truman Sale 1906.", and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, Patronage, Political, Crowds, Fools & jesters, and Quacks