Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence, In pencil lower margin: Ostade; J. Smith sculp., 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):
Quacks and quackery, Medicine shows, Quacks, Spectators, and Children
Titles supplied by curator., Date from item., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., 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):
Dentistry, Teeth, Extraction, Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Pickpockets, and Pain
"An apothecary's shop, the walls covered by jars closely ranged on shelves, a stuffed fish hanging from the ceiling. Behind a curtain (right) Death, wearing an apron, pounds at a mortar of 'slow Poison', looking gleefully in a mirror to watch the customers. The fat quack compounds medicines at the counter. A grotesque crowd of agonized patients enters through a doorway (left) inscribed 'Apothecaries Hall'. Two sit in arm-chairs. The jars are 'Canthar[ides]', 'Arsnic', 'Opium', 'Nitre', 'Vitriol', 'Elixir', with (right) 'Restorativ Drops'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
I have a secret art to cure each malady, which men endure
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: I have a secret art to cure / each malady, which men endure., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 1, opposite page 85., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death -- Pharmacy, interior -- Apothecaries.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1- 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Quacks and quackery, Skeletons, Interiors, Drugstores, Pharmacists, Mortars & pestles, Sick persons, Medicines, Shelving, Containers, and Mirrors
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from publisher's place of residence., Title in Latin and Dutch., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
CI Visscher [monogram] excu
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medicine shows, Patent medicines, Spectators, and Deception
Title derived by curator from duck depicted saying "Quack" drawn in ink at lower left., "C[al]eb[?] Cammon '65" written in ink at top., Artist's initials at lower right., Date derived from artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., Date from item., 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):
Quacks and quackery, Drugs, Medicine shows, Patent medicines, and Quacks & quackery
