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A barbers shop a medley shews, of monsters, wigs, drawn-teeth and news, while one is shav’d another bleeds, a third the Grub Street Journal reads. The master full of Whig and Tory, talks politics and tells a story, and swears he is not such a sot, but that he knows full well, what’s what.
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d,. engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.)
Engraving. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Paper brittle, backed on thin tissue.
A satire about a barber's shop, with the characters with animal heads. One cat is being shaved, another, a female, is being bled. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19725] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d,. engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.)
Engraving. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Paper brittle, backed on thin tissue.
A satire about a barber's shop, with the characters with animal heads. One cat is being shaved, another, a female, is being bled. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19725] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
The Bitter Draught.
[Illegible] Fecit.
Printed & Sold by W. Belch, 258, High Street, Borough [n.d., c.1830].
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 185 x 150mm (7¼ x 6"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
A man sitting in a chair, holding a cup in one hand and a small bottle of medicine in the other; on a table to the right is a container labelled Pills and a large bottle of medicine.
National Library of Medicine: 101393485.
[Ref: 58360] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[Illegible] Fecit.
Printed & Sold by W. Belch, 258, High Street, Borough [n.d., c.1830].
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 185 x 150mm (7¼ x 6"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
A man sitting in a chair, holding a cup in one hand and a small bottle of medicine in the other; on a table to the right is a container labelled Pills and a large bottle of medicine.
National Library of Medicine: 101393485.
[Ref: 58360] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
A Broken Leg, or the Carpenter the Best Surgeon. Halloo! Young Glewgot - de ye see Jack Junk has shivered his Timbers _ and wee want a Splice here.
Published 24th Feb.y 11800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching. 200 x 245mm (8 x 9½").
A group of sailors in a street. When one of their number falls a surgeon rushes to help, but is restrained, as they need a carpenter to fix the broken wooden peg leg.
BM Satires 9110.
[Ref: 54482] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Published 24th Feb.y 11800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching. 200 x 245mm (8 x 9½").
A group of sailors in a street. When one of their number falls a surgeon rushes to help, but is restrained, as they need a carpenter to fix the broken wooden peg leg.
BM Satires 9110.
[Ref: 54482] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
The bruising Apothecary - paratus operi -
Pub by MDarly 39 Strand Sep. 1. 1774.
Etching, 240 x 175mm. 9½ x 7".
An apothecary standing clenching his fist and holding a wig; probably a portrait. A medical interest caricature, from an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. This print gave its title to 'The Bruising Apothecary: images of pharmacy and medicine in caricature', the catalogue of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's collection of caricatures.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 14514] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Pub by MDarly 39 Strand Sep. 1. 1774.
Etching, 240 x 175mm. 9½ x 7".
An apothecary standing clenching his fist and holding a wig; probably a portrait. A medical interest caricature, from an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. This print gave its title to 'The Bruising Apothecary: images of pharmacy and medicine in caricature', the catalogue of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's collection of caricatures.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 14514] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Cholera Preventive Costume.
[Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket, March 1832.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed as scrap. Sheet 295 x 215mm (11½ x 8½"). Trimmed around image, laid on album paper with title excised and pasted below. Text with repaired tear.
A rare satire of the first cholera epidemic in the British Isles, beginning in 1831. It shows a man dressed with and carrying various spurious protections against the disease. After 32,000 deaths (and 72 riots usually aimed at the medical profession) the epidemic ended in 1832. It was not until 1854 that John Snow found the link between cholera and drinking water.
[Ref: 60965] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
[Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket, March 1832.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed as scrap. Sheet 295 x 215mm (11½ x 8½"). Trimmed around image, laid on album paper with title excised and pasted below. Text with repaired tear.
A rare satire of the first cholera epidemic in the British Isles, beginning in 1831. It shows a man dressed with and carrying various spurious protections against the disease. After 32,000 deaths (and 72 riots usually aimed at the medical profession) the epidemic ended in 1832. It was not until 1854 that John Snow found the link between cholera and drinking water.
[Ref: 60965] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
A Consultation of Surgeons.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Etching. 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾").
A group of surgeons debate the death of George Clarke: one says 'Gold is good evidence and carries great weight'', as the chairman decides 'This convinces me that Cl-k did not dye of the Wound he received at Br-d [Brentford]'. Two Irish chairmen, said to have been employed by Sir William Proctor, Wilkes's opponent in the election, were found guilty of the murder of George Clarke on 14 January 1769, but were pardoned after the College of Surgeons had been consulted. According to the Oxford Magazine, in which this satire was published, the consultation, or 'Chirurgical Examination' was held in secret. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1769, p.136, gave the names of those present as Benjamin Cowell, William Bromfield, Stafford Crane, John Ranby, Caesar Hawkins, David Middleton, Christopner Fullager, Robert Young, Percival Pott and Mr Gregory.
BM Satires 4271.
[Ref: 59964] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Etching. 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾").
A group of surgeons debate the death of George Clarke: one says 'Gold is good evidence and carries great weight'', as the chairman decides 'This convinces me that Cl-k did not dye of the Wound he received at Br-d [Brentford]'. Two Irish chairmen, said to have been employed by Sir William Proctor, Wilkes's opponent in the election, were found guilty of the murder of George Clarke on 14 January 1769, but were pardoned after the College of Surgeons had been consulted. According to the Oxford Magazine, in which this satire was published, the consultation, or 'Chirurgical Examination' was held in secret. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1769, p.136, gave the names of those present as Benjamin Cowell, William Bromfield, Stafford Crane, John Ranby, Caesar Hawkins, David Middleton, Christopner Fullager, Robert Young, Percival Pott and Mr Gregory.
BM Satires 4271.
[Ref: 59964] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
![[A Consultation of Surgeons.]](jpegs/48416.jpg)
[A Consultation of Surgeons.]
[n.d., c.1769.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½''). Trimmed along top edge. Large margins on 3 sides.
A satirical scene showing a group of surgeons sitting around a table.
BM Satire 4271.
[Ref: 48416] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1769.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½''). Trimmed along top edge. Large margins on 3 sides.
A satirical scene showing a group of surgeons sitting around a table.
BM Satire 4271.
[Ref: 48416] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Comfort to the Cross.
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t
Pub.d Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street.
Hand-coloured engraving. Plate: 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Surface dirt.
A scene showing a old woman cleaning her feet and scraping her corns.
[Ref: 42713] £320.00
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t
Pub.d Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street.
Hand-coloured engraving. Plate: 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Surface dirt.
A scene showing a old woman cleaning her feet and scraping her corns.
[Ref: 42713] £320.00
Tugging at a high- eye-tooth!
A.E. Inv.t G. Cruikshank fec.t
Pub.d by G. Humphrey 27st James's St London Nov.r 1. 1821
Very fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 215 x 260mm (8½ x 10¼"). Trimed within plate to just a bit outside printed border.
A scene in a dentist's surgery showing a small, squat dentist, standing on a stool and pulling out the tooth of a woman who is in pain. The woman, kicking out her leg in agony knocks over a basin causing a little dog to bark. Bloody teeth dangle from strings in the window and the bookcase behind them contains books such as 'Frankenstein', 'Tales of the Devil', 'Treatise on Tooth Powder & Brushes' and 'Miseries of Human Life'.
BM Satire 14311.
[Ref: 58998] £320.00
A.E. Inv.t G. Cruikshank fec.t
Pub.d by G. Humphrey 27st James's St London Nov.r 1. 1821
Very fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 215 x 260mm (8½ x 10¼"). Trimed within plate to just a bit outside printed border.
A scene in a dentist's surgery showing a small, squat dentist, standing on a stool and pulling out the tooth of a woman who is in pain. The woman, kicking out her leg in agony knocks over a basin causing a little dog to bark. Bloody teeth dangle from strings in the window and the bookcase behind them contains books such as 'Frankenstein', 'Tales of the Devil', 'Treatise on Tooth Powder & Brushes' and 'Miseries of Human Life'.
BM Satire 14311.
[Ref: 58998] £320.00
Doctor Gallipot placing his Fortune at the feet of his Mistress. Thro' Physic to the Dogs.
Rowlandson.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Hand-coloured etching with aquatint. 335 x 265mm (13¼ x 10½"), with wide margins.
An ugly foppish apothecary, with drink-blotched profile, kneels at the feet of a handsome young woman, one hand on his breast, the other pointing to a cloth at his feet on which are spread clyster-pipes, knife, pestle and mortar, and a bottle: 'Elixer of Life Drops'. She stands, making a gesture of surprise. Behind are the curtains of a bed, and a door round which looks an amused man. First published by Reeve & Jones in 1808, this is a reissue, with the aquatint border reduced and the publication line removed.
See BM Satires: 11114 for first issue.
[Ref: 50681] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Rowlandson.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Hand-coloured etching with aquatint. 335 x 265mm (13¼ x 10½"), with wide margins.
An ugly foppish apothecary, with drink-blotched profile, kneels at the feet of a handsome young woman, one hand on his breast, the other pointing to a cloth at his feet on which are spread clyster-pipes, knife, pestle and mortar, and a bottle: 'Elixer of Life Drops'. She stands, making a gesture of surprise. Behind are the curtains of a bed, and a door round which looks an amused man. First published by Reeve & Jones in 1808, this is a reissue, with the aquatint border reduced and the publication line removed.
See BM Satires: 11114 for first issue.
[Ref: 50681] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Doctor Jeremy Snob. Written by J.G. Maxwell.
Published 4th October 1798, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Etched songsheet. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with margins. Tear entering image at top, split in folding creases.
A satire of a cobbler who is also a quack doctor, with a pregnant woman visiting his workshop. According to the lyrics his results are either death or recovery.
BM Satires 9334.
[Ref: 54496] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
Published 4th October 1798, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Etched songsheet. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with margins. Tear entering image at top, split in folding creases.
A satire of a cobbler who is also a quack doctor, with a pregnant woman visiting his workshop. According to the lyrics his results are either death or recovery.
BM Satires 9334.
[Ref: 54496] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
The German Doctor on his Travels from England. The German Doctor with his Family on his Travels to England conducted by Mynheer Shinder-Knecht.
Doctor Faustus del. Robinson fect.
Sold by J.Williams Bookseller No.39 Fleet Street. Price 6d. [n.d., c.1780.]
Etching with aquatint in brown ink, sheet 210 x 240mm. 8¼ x 9½". Trimmed within plate and glued to album page.
Social satire: a travelling doctor mounted backwards on a donkey looking back at his wife and six children; on an upper register a man hanging on a gallows. Very rare. Published by John Williams (fl.1760 - 1774), bookseller and publisher in London. May have been identical with the bookseller John Williams who was put in the pillory in 1765 for the republication of Wilkes's provocative number 45 "North Briton".
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 13069] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Doctor Faustus del. Robinson fect.
Sold by J.Williams Bookseller No.39 Fleet Street. Price 6d. [n.d., c.1780.]
Etching with aquatint in brown ink, sheet 210 x 240mm. 8¼ x 9½". Trimmed within plate and glued to album page.
Social satire: a travelling doctor mounted backwards on a donkey looking back at his wife and six children; on an upper register a man hanging on a gallows. Very rare. Published by John Williams (fl.1760 - 1774), bookseller and publisher in London. May have been identical with the bookseller John Williams who was put in the pillory in 1765 for the republication of Wilkes's provocative number 45 "North Briton".
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 13069] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Doctor Spindle & Miss Maria Mince-Meat. Worn out with folly and disease, / The doctor thinks his purse can please, / But chaste Maria, with disdain, / Laughs at his hopes, and fancied pain, / And says, a warming-pan, instead, / Would better suit his feeble bed
[after George, 1st Marquess Townshend.]
[...]1777 by J. Walker No.13 Parliament Street.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 340 x 230mm (13½ x 9"). Framed. Trimmed within plate, small nick in left edge. Unexamined out of frame.
According to ''The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo'' (1830), this anonymous caricature is by George Townshend and ''was intended, it is said, as a satirical corrective to a certain well-known decrepit Irish physician, whose amours rendered him fairly obnoxious to ridicule''. Field Marshal George Townshend (1724-1807), 1st Marquess Townshend, fought at Dettingen, Culloden and Lauffeld, and received Quebec City's surrender in 1759 after the death of Wolfe. However he was a keen amateur caricaturist, which got him in to trouble on more than one occasion: he offended the Duke of Cumberland during the Jacobite campaign, resulting in Townshend missing out on promotions for many years; and his contempt for Wolfe evident in another caricature led to censure for ridiculing the dead hero. However the BM biography ends: 'Established caricature as an important element in British political satire'.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 51845] £320.00
[after George, 1st Marquess Townshend.]
[...]1777 by J. Walker No.13 Parliament Street.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 340 x 230mm (13½ x 9"). Framed. Trimmed within plate, small nick in left edge. Unexamined out of frame.
According to ''The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo'' (1830), this anonymous caricature is by George Townshend and ''was intended, it is said, as a satirical corrective to a certain well-known decrepit Irish physician, whose amours rendered him fairly obnoxious to ridicule''. Field Marshal George Townshend (1724-1807), 1st Marquess Townshend, fought at Dettingen, Culloden and Lauffeld, and received Quebec City's surrender in 1759 after the death of Wolfe. However he was a keen amateur caricaturist, which got him in to trouble on more than one occasion: he offended the Duke of Cumberland during the Jacobite campaign, resulting in Townshend missing out on promotions for many years; and his contempt for Wolfe evident in another caricature led to censure for ridiculing the dead hero. However the BM biography ends: 'Established caricature as an important element in British political satire'.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 51845] £320.00
The Doctors Visit.
London pub.d by J.W.Fores 41 Picadilly Sept.r 1827.
A rare etching, with hand colour. Sheet: 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Trimmed, clipping glued below. Very slight stain in margin on left.
A comic scene showing a doctor (dog) attending to a woman (cat) wearing her nightdress. The clipping below describes the woman's condition as atmospherical.
Not in BM
[Ref: 46806] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
London pub.d by J.W.Fores 41 Picadilly Sept.r 1827.
A rare etching, with hand colour. Sheet: 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Trimmed, clipping glued below. Very slight stain in margin on left.
A comic scene showing a doctor (dog) attending to a woman (cat) wearing her nightdress. The clipping below describes the woman's condition as atmospherical.
Not in BM
[Ref: 46806] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Adventures of Gil Blas] Doctors Andros & Oquetos.](jpegs/61103.jpg)
[The Adventures of Gil Blas] Doctors Andros & Oquetos.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Watercolour on embossed card. Sheet 90 x 125mm (3½ x 5").
A scene from Alain-René Lesage's 'L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane'. When Don Vincent falls ill, the two doctors that arrive have opposing views about treatment.
[Ref: 61103] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1820.]
Watercolour on embossed card. Sheet 90 x 125mm (3½ x 5").
A scene from Alain-René Lesage's 'L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane'. When Don Vincent falls ill, the two doctors that arrive have opposing views about treatment.
[Ref: 61103] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![[Charming - well again.]](jpegs/49946.jpg)
[Charming - well again.]
[After James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼''). Staining.
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. After a scene from James Gillray's series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires.
After BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 49946] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
[After James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼''). Staining.
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. After a scene from James Gillray's series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires.
After BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 49946] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
Taking Physick.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J. Ruse 1802'. Trimmed to printed border.
An invalid, with unbuttoned breeches and nightcap, standing before a fire drinking medicine from a bowl, pulling a face. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 9584.
[Ref: 61791] £360.00
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J. Ruse 1802'. Trimmed to printed border.
An invalid, with unbuttoned breeches and nightcap, standing before a fire drinking medicine from a bowl, pulling a face. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 9584.
[Ref: 61791] £360.00
Taking Physick.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to printed border, long tear taped. Damaged.
An invalid, with unbuttoned breeches and nightcap, standing before a fire drinking medicine from a bowl, pulling a face. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 9584.
[Ref: 59505] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to printed border, long tear taped. Damaged.
An invalid, with unbuttoned breeches and nightcap, standing before a fire drinking medicine from a bowl, pulling a face. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 9584.
[Ref: 59505] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)
Gentle Emetic.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28.th 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate.
An invalid sits before a bowl, his mournful-looking manservant holding his head as he waits for the inevitable. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10304.
[Ref: 61792] £320.00
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28.th 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate.
An invalid sits before a bowl, his mournful-looking manservant holding his head as he waits for the inevitable. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10304.
[Ref: 61792] £320.00
Gentle Emetic.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th. 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, tear taped top left.
An invalid sits before a bowl, his mournful-looking manservant holding his head as he waits for the inevitable. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10304.
[Ref: 59502] £380.00
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th. 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, tear taped top left.
An invalid sits before a bowl, his mournful-looking manservant holding his head as he waits for the inevitable. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10304.
[Ref: 59502] £380.00
Breathing a vein.
[James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th 1804 by H. Humphrey St. James Street London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J Ruse 1802. Trimmed to printed border.
An invalid, dressed in breeches, waistcoat and nightcap, looks away as his manservant directs a spurt of blood from his bicep to a bowl. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satire 10306.
[Ref: 61790] £360.00
[James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th 1804 by H. Humphrey St. James Street London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J Ruse 1802. Trimmed to printed border.
An invalid, dressed in breeches, waistcoat and nightcap, looks away as his manservant directs a spurt of blood from his bicep to a bowl. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satire 10306.
[Ref: 61790] £360.00
Breathing a vein.
[James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th 1804 by H. Humphrey St. James Street London.
Coloured etching. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8").
An invalid, dressed in breeches, waistcoat and nightcap, looks away as his manservant directs a spurt of blood from his bicep to a bowl. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satire 10306.
[Ref: 59503] £380.00
[James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th 1804 by H. Humphrey St. James Street London.
Coloured etching. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8").
An invalid, dressed in breeches, waistcoat and nightcap, looks away as his manservant directs a spurt of blood from his bicep to a bowl. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satire 10306.
[Ref: 59503] £380.00
Charming - well again.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28.th 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J Ruse 1802'. Trimmed to printed border.
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 61793] £320.00
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28.th 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J Ruse 1802'. Trimmed to printed border.
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 61793] £320.00
Charming - well again.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jany. 28th. 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½").
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 59504] £380.00
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jany. 28th. 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½").
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 59504] £380.00
The Deuce take the Gout. Designed for & presented GRATIS with No. 116 of the FLY!
W. Clerk, lith, 202 High Holborn.
London Published by Glover & Co, Water Lane, Fleet St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼"). Tear reaching image taped.
A portly man exclaims in pain as he kneels to pay court to a much younger woman.
[Ref: 49522] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
W. Clerk, lith, 202 High Holborn.
London Published by Glover & Co, Water Lane, Fleet St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼"). Tear reaching image taped.
A portly man exclaims in pain as he kneels to pay court to a much younger woman.
[Ref: 49522] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
The Head Ache.
[Anchor monogram of Captain Frederick Marryat] G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 23th. 1818 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.
Coloured etching, J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark. Sheet 295 x 240mm (7¾ x 9½"). Trimmed to printed border. Crease right corner.
A bald man sits in an armchair by the fire, his eyes rolling up into his head, as six imps torment him by bawling in one ear and trumpeting in the other, and attacking his skull with a red-hot poker, drill, corkscrew and hammer.
BM Satires 13439.
[Ref: 60572] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
[Anchor monogram of Captain Frederick Marryat] G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 23th. 1818 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.
Coloured etching, J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark. Sheet 295 x 240mm (7¾ x 9½"). Trimmed to printed border. Crease right corner.
A bald man sits in an armchair by the fire, his eyes rolling up into his head, as six imps torment him by bawling in one ear and trumpeting in the other, and attacking his skull with a red-hot poker, drill, corkscrew and hammer.
BM Satires 13439.
[Ref: 60572] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. de Pourceaugnac Act.1er. Sc.8.
Grave par Joullain sur le dessein de Ch. Coypel 1726.
Sevend a Paris chez Surrugue rue des Noyers.
Etching and engraving. Trimmed within plate.
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac surrounded by two doctors who are both taking his pulse, while in the background a servant approaches from the right, carrying a large syringe. From a series of 6 plates after Charles Coypel: 'Suite d'estampes des principaux sujets des comédies de Molière', representing scenes from Molière's plays.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7854] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Grave par Joullain sur le dessein de Ch. Coypel 1726.
Sevend a Paris chez Surrugue rue des Noyers.
Etching and engraving. Trimmed within plate.
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac surrounded by two doctors who are both taking his pulse, while in the background a servant approaches from the right, carrying a large syringe. From a series of 6 plates after Charles Coypel: 'Suite d'estampes des principaux sujets des comédies de Molière', representing scenes from Molière's plays.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7854] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
The Seige of Warwick-Castle; or The Battle between the Fellows & Licenciates.
[Oxford Magazine. 1768.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 190mm (4¼ x 7½''). Small margins on 3 sides.
A satirical print showing a battle between Fellows of the College of Physicians and Scots led by the Earl of Bute. The argument is based on the idea of the healing power of the king, Stuart supporters arguing that the ability ended with the Stuart kings and thus the Hannovarians would not possess the ability.
BM Satire 4173.
[Ref: 50373] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Oxford Magazine. 1768.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 190mm (4¼ x 7½''). Small margins on 3 sides.
A satirical print showing a battle between Fellows of the College of Physicians and Scots led by the Earl of Bute. The argument is based on the idea of the healing power of the king, Stuart supporters arguing that the ability ended with the Stuart kings and thus the Hannovarians would not possess the ability.
BM Satire 4173.
[Ref: 50373] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Jerry 'beat to a stand still'! Dr. Please'em's Prescription. Tom and Logic's condolence; and the 'Slaveys' on the alert.
Drawn & Engraved by I.R. & G. Cruikshank.
Pub.d by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, July 1 1821.
Coloured aquatint. 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9"). Stitch holes within plate.
Jerry's lodgings at Corinthian House', with him being attended by a doctor, thin and pale. Tom sits facing him, holding his top-hat. Logic, on a visit from the Fleet, addresses a buxom maidservant ('slavey', a maid of all work in a boardinghouse) who puts a warming-pan into a large canopied bed, while an older woman mixes gruel. From Pierce Egan's ' Life in London, or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis', originally issued as a monthly journal at a shilling a time, illustrated by George Cruikshank (1792–1878). The first recorded use of the word 'slavey' is on p. 174 of this book.
Abbey: Life 281; BM Satires 14354.
[Ref: 34348] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn & Engraved by I.R. & G. Cruikshank.
Pub.d by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, July 1 1821.
Coloured aquatint. 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9"). Stitch holes within plate.
Jerry's lodgings at Corinthian House', with him being attended by a doctor, thin and pale. Tom sits facing him, holding his top-hat. Logic, on a visit from the Fleet, addresses a buxom maidservant ('slavey', a maid of all work in a boardinghouse) who puts a warming-pan into a large canopied bed, while an older woman mixes gruel. From Pierce Egan's ' Life in London, or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis', originally issued as a monthly journal at a shilling a time, illustrated by George Cruikshank (1792–1878). The first recorded use of the word 'slavey' is on p. 174 of this book.
Abbey: Life 281; BM Satires 14354.
[Ref: 34348] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
The Compliments of the Season. Kibe Heels & Chilblains.
W.H.B. [Bunbury] invt.
[London, n.d., c.1785.]
Scarce stipple. Plate: 210 x 185mm, (8¼ x 7¼"). Small margins.
An old man sits in a chair is rubbing one foot which rests on a low stool with the contents of a bottle held in his right hand. A woman, wearing large spectacles, is seated by the fire, she holds on her lap the bare leg of a young man, and is about to apply to it the contents of a pot which she is stirring on the fire. On the wall is a placard, "Dr Steers Opodeldoc for Chilblains". Probably a quack chiropodist's establishment of a very humble kind. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
BM Satires 5806
[Ref: 39831] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
W.H.B. [Bunbury] invt.
[London, n.d., c.1785.]
Scarce stipple. Plate: 210 x 185mm, (8¼ x 7¼"). Small margins.
An old man sits in a chair is rubbing one foot which rests on a low stool with the contents of a bottle held in his right hand. A woman, wearing large spectacles, is seated by the fire, she holds on her lap the bare leg of a young man, and is about to apply to it the contents of a pot which she is stirring on the fire. On the wall is a placard, "Dr Steers Opodeldoc for Chilblains". Probably a quack chiropodist's establishment of a very humble kind. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
BM Satires 5806
[Ref: 39831] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Compliments of the Season. Kibe Heels & Chilblains.
W.H.B. [Bunbury] invt.
[London, n.d., c.1785.]
Hand coloured etching with stipple, 210 x 185mm. 8¼ x 7¼".
The interior of a poverty-stricken room. An old man seated in a chair is rubbing one foot which rests on a low stool with the contents of a bottle held in his right hand. A witch-like woman, wearing large spectacles, is seated by the fire, she holds on her lap the bare leg of a young man, and is about to apply to it the contents of a pot which she is stirring on the fire. On the wall is a placard, "Dr Steers Opodeldoc for Chilblains". Probably a quack chiropodist's establishment of a very humble kind. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
BM Satires 5806
[Ref: 11532] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
W.H.B. [Bunbury] invt.
[London, n.d., c.1785.]
Hand coloured etching with stipple, 210 x 185mm. 8¼ x 7¼".
The interior of a poverty-stricken room. An old man seated in a chair is rubbing one foot which rests on a low stool with the contents of a bottle held in his right hand. A witch-like woman, wearing large spectacles, is seated by the fire, she holds on her lap the bare leg of a young man, and is about to apply to it the contents of a pot which she is stirring on the fire. On the wall is a placard, "Dr Steers Opodeldoc for Chilblains". Probably a quack chiropodist's establishment of a very humble kind. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
BM Satires 5806
[Ref: 11532] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
A Military Salutation.
[Piercy Roberts crudely scratched from plate.]
Pub.d Jan.y 1. [1807 scratched from plate] by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet size: 273 x 410mm (10¾ x 16"). Trimmed inside plate. Light creasing. Some surface dirt.
A fashionably dressed slim young man, stands with his clasped hands, facing a man with his arms and legs in wrappings, and says, 'stand at ease'. The ailing figure, wearing a night cap, sits in an armchair with his legs resting on a stool, answers, his face distorted with pain, 'Yes - its very fine talking - but if you had such a Confounded Gout, as I have young man You'd find it d----d difficult to sit at ease'.
BM Satires 10912.
[Ref: 36181] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Piercy Roberts crudely scratched from plate.]
Pub.d Jan.y 1. [1807 scratched from plate] by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet size: 273 x 410mm (10¾ x 16"). Trimmed inside plate. Light creasing. Some surface dirt.
A fashionably dressed slim young man, stands with his clasped hands, facing a man with his arms and legs in wrappings, and says, 'stand at ease'. The ailing figure, wearing a night cap, sits in an armchair with his legs resting on a stool, answers, his face distorted with pain, 'Yes - its very fine talking - but if you had such a Confounded Gout, as I have young man You'd find it d----d difficult to sit at ease'.
BM Satires 10912.
[Ref: 36181] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Night Doctor.]](jpegs/58539.jpg)
[The Night Doctor.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 210 x 275mm (8¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed into image, stained, laid on card.
A messenger boy wakes Dr Simple at 6am. Stuck on the reverse is a scene of tiger hunting from the backs of elephants.
[Ref: 58539] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 210 x 275mm (8¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed into image, stained, laid on card.
A messenger boy wakes Dr Simple at 6am. Stuck on the reverse is a scene of tiger hunting from the backs of elephants.
[Ref: 58539] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
The Origin of the Gout.
Etch'd from an Original Sketch, by W. H. Bunbury Esqr.
Publish'd as the Act directs, April 20th. 1785, by J. Jones, Great Portland Street.
Etching with some stippling, small margins; published state. 220 x 260mm, 8¾ x 10¼". Two faint printer's creases.
A gouty and obese man (right) seated in a chair playing the cello. Both legs are padded, the feet wrapped in slashed coverings; the right leg rests on a stool. The Devil (left), hat in hand, holds a hot coal against the right knee with a pair of tongs. Bottles and glasses stand on a table. A pair of crutches lean against the chair. The hands of a clock on the wall behind point to 1.25. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
BM Satires 6881.
[Ref: 26253] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Etch'd from an Original Sketch, by W. H. Bunbury Esqr.
Publish'd as the Act directs, April 20th. 1785, by J. Jones, Great Portland Street.
Etching with some stippling, small margins; published state. 220 x 260mm, 8¾ x 10¼". Two faint printer's creases.
A gouty and obese man (right) seated in a chair playing the cello. Both legs are padded, the feet wrapped in slashed coverings; the right leg rests on a stool. The Devil (left), hat in hand, holds a hot coal against the right knee with a pair of tongs. Bottles and glasses stand on a table. A pair of crutches lean against the chair. The hands of a clock on the wall behind point to 1.25. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
BM Satires 6881.
[Ref: 26253] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Les Malades et Les Médecins.9. L'Orthopédiste. Monsieur ….voici votre fils que grace à mes soins est radicalement gueri de sa déplorable gibbosité …du reste il est dans un état de santé parfaite….trop parfaite même, car au premier abord on pourrait croire qu’il est encore un peu bossu,….mais cela tient uniquement à ce qu’il est trop gras du dos!
Ch. Jacques [facsimile within image.] Imp. d'Aubert & Cie.
Chez Pannier & Cie. Edrs. R. du Croissant, 16. Chez Aubert & Cie. Pl de la Bourse, 23. [n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. 359 x 274mm. 14 x 10¾". Small tears. Crease to the left-hand side.
Medical satire. The Dr is claiming that the boy being of perfect health, too perfect even, has the deformation of being hunchback, but not quite: he claims that it is just a bit too much fat on the back!
[Ref: 12927] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Ch. Jacques [facsimile within image.] Imp. d'Aubert & Cie.
Chez Pannier & Cie. Edrs. R. du Croissant, 16. Chez Aubert & Cie. Pl de la Bourse, 23. [n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. 359 x 274mm. 14 x 10¾". Small tears. Crease to the left-hand side.
Medical satire. The Dr is claiming that the boy being of perfect health, too perfect even, has the deformation of being hunchback, but not quite: he claims that it is just a bit too much fat on the back!
[Ref: 12927] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![[A suffering patient.]](jpegs/27926.jpg)
[A suffering patient.]
[Artist unidentified.]
[British, n.d., c.1830.]
Etching and aquatint with early colour by hand, sheet/image 185 x 158m. 7¼ x 6¼". Lacking margins.
Caricature of an unwell man, sitting in an armchair close to the fireplace, his left hand and wrist bandaged, as well as his head. A book of 'gripes' and a 'composing draught' are on the table in foreground, and he stares mournfully at a tall bottle of medicine on the mantelpiece.
[Ref: 27926] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
[Artist unidentified.]
[British, n.d., c.1830.]
Etching and aquatint with early colour by hand, sheet/image 185 x 158m. 7¼ x 6¼". Lacking margins.
Caricature of an unwell man, sitting in an armchair close to the fireplace, his left hand and wrist bandaged, as well as his head. A book of 'gripes' and a 'composing draught' are on the table in foreground, and he stares mournfully at a tall bottle of medicine on the mantelpiece.
[Ref: 27926] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Extraordinary Effects of Morrisons Vegetable Pills. Grant's Oddities No 1.
CJG [Charles Jameson Grant] Invent et del.
London Pub by J. Kendrick 54 Leicester Squ.e ... 1834.
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 295 x 285mm (11½ z 11¼") Slight soiling.
A former cripple claims that after taking the pills his legs regrew overnight, so recommends them to his friend with his legs amputated above the knees. James Morison (1770-1840), not Morrison as here, sold his 'Hygeian Vegetable Universal Medicine' as a would-be cure-all. His success allowed him to open the 'British College of Health', which expunded his theory that ''all maladies arise from impurity of the blood''. His pills, made up of aloes, jalap, gamboges, colocynth, cream of tartar, myrrh, and rhubarb, were merely laxative. The founding editor of The Lancet, Thomas Wakley, spent over a decade trying to discredit Morison’s theories. In 1836 apothecary Robert Salmon was indicted for the manslaughter of John M'Kenzie by administering large quantities of Morison's pills. Grant's Oddities contained another satire, showing a grocer who had taken the pills growing vegetables from his head and limbs.
[Ref: 54512] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
CJG [Charles Jameson Grant] Invent et del.
London Pub by J. Kendrick 54 Leicester Squ.e ... 1834.
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 295 x 285mm (11½ z 11¼") Slight soiling.
A former cripple claims that after taking the pills his legs regrew overnight, so recommends them to his friend with his legs amputated above the knees. James Morison (1770-1840), not Morrison as here, sold his 'Hygeian Vegetable Universal Medicine' as a would-be cure-all. His success allowed him to open the 'British College of Health', which expunded his theory that ''all maladies arise from impurity of the blood''. His pills, made up of aloes, jalap, gamboges, colocynth, cream of tartar, myrrh, and rhubarb, were merely laxative. The founding editor of The Lancet, Thomas Wakley, spent over a decade trying to discredit Morison’s theories. In 1836 apothecary Robert Salmon was indicted for the manslaughter of John M'Kenzie by administering large quantities of Morison's pills. Grant's Oddities contained another satire, showing a grocer who had taken the pills growing vegetables from his head and limbs.
[Ref: 54512] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Ride to Rumford.
[after Thomas Rowlandson.]
[n.d., c.1820.] But later.
Coloured etching. 220 x 295mm (8¾ x 11½"). Original folds, laid on archival paper, old ink mss. at top edge of plate and margin.
In the interior of a veterinary practice a woman in riding dress lifts her skrts so a dressing can be applied to a saddle sore on her bottom. Another man looks on in enjoyment, to the disgust of a woman. A copy of Rowlandson's etching (BM Satires 9465), without the continued title 'Let the Gall'd Jade winch'.
Royal Collection RCIN 810538.
[Ref: 58365] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[after Thomas Rowlandson.]
[n.d., c.1820.] But later.
Coloured etching. 220 x 295mm (8¾ x 11½"). Original folds, laid on archival paper, old ink mss. at top edge of plate and margin.
In the interior of a veterinary practice a woman in riding dress lifts her skrts so a dressing can be applied to a saddle sore on her bottom. Another man looks on in enjoyment, to the disgust of a woman. A copy of Rowlandson's etching (BM Satires 9465), without the continued title 'Let the Gall'd Jade winch'.
Royal Collection RCIN 810538.
[Ref: 58365] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
A Cure for a Smoky Chimney! 36. Price one Shilling.
Woodward del.
London Published by Th.s Tegg 111 Cheapside Jan.ry 1.6 1808.
Etching with fine hand colour, sheet 260 x 335mm (10¼ x 13¼"). On J Whatman watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate on three sides.
A well-dressed woman complains to a 'Doctor' that she has paid him two guineas "for curing my Chimney and the moment I put a bit of fire in the grate, I am half suffocated!!"; he replies in an Irish accent, "... you never once mention'd the fire - depend upon it if you put no fire in the grate the Devil a bit of smoke will come from the Chimney!!"
Undescribed in BM Satires.
[Ref: 60041] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del.
London Published by Th.s Tegg 111 Cheapside Jan.ry 1.6 1808.
Etching with fine hand colour, sheet 260 x 335mm (10¼ x 13¼"). On J Whatman watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate on three sides.
A well-dressed woman complains to a 'Doctor' that she has paid him two guineas "for curing my Chimney and the moment I put a bit of fire in the grate, I am half suffocated!!"; he replies in an Irish accent, "... you never once mention'd the fire - depend upon it if you put no fire in the grate the Devil a bit of smoke will come from the Chimney!!"
Undescribed in BM Satires.
[Ref: 60041] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Surgical Operations- or a New method of Obtaining Subjects.
[Henry Heath?]
Pub.d Dec.r 16 1827 by S.W. Fores Piccadilly.
Etching. Sheet: 235 x 340mm (9¼ x 13¼''). Trimmed, ink additions in plate.
A medical scene in an anatomy school, a figure is kicked down the stairs by the head of the anatomy school at Dean Street, Joseph Constantine Carpue while students laugh from behind.
BM Satire 15444.
[Ref: 50785] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Henry Heath?]
Pub.d Dec.r 16 1827 by S.W. Fores Piccadilly.
Etching. Sheet: 235 x 340mm (9¼ x 13¼''). Trimmed, ink additions in plate.
A medical scene in an anatomy school, a figure is kicked down the stairs by the head of the anatomy school at Dean Street, Joseph Constantine Carpue while students laugh from behind.
BM Satire 15444.
[Ref: 50785] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Taking Caudle.
R. Dagley del. et sculp.
London, Published by John Warren, Old Bond Street, and G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane. [n.d. c.1821.]
Fine hand coloured etching. 152 x 240mm. 6 x 9½".
An ailing woman lies in bed, a second woman stands holding a baby to the right; a third and fourth woman sit holding caudle, a cat on the lap of the one to the right, with a dog also looking up by her chair. Caudle is a British thickened and sweetened alcoholic drink, similar to eggnog and was used during the Middle Ages for its supposed medicinal properties. From "Takings or, the Life of a Collegian".
[Ref: 24041] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
R. Dagley del. et sculp.
London, Published by John Warren, Old Bond Street, and G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane. [n.d. c.1821.]
Fine hand coloured etching. 152 x 240mm. 6 x 9½".
An ailing woman lies in bed, a second woman stands holding a baby to the right; a third and fourth woman sit holding caudle, a cat on the lap of the one to the right, with a dog also looking up by her chair. Caudle is a British thickened and sweetened alcoholic drink, similar to eggnog and was used during the Middle Ages for its supposed medicinal properties. From "Takings or, the Life of a Collegian".
[Ref: 24041] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Taking Physic.
R. Dagley del. W.H. Brooke sculp.
London, Published by John Warren, Old Bond Street, and G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane. [n.d. c.1821.]
Fine hand-coloured etching. Paper watermarked: [J Wha]tman [182]5. 240 x 152mm. 9½ x 6". Slight soiling and creasing to edges.
An elderly couple; a man is revolted by the medicine which his wife pours into a bowl to feed him. A book, titled 'Buchan' lies on the table. From "Takings or, the Life of a Collegian". Medical print.
[Ref: 24034] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
R. Dagley del. W.H. Brooke sculp.
London, Published by John Warren, Old Bond Street, and G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane. [n.d. c.1821.]
Fine hand-coloured etching. Paper watermarked: [J Wha]tman [182]5. 240 x 152mm. 9½ x 6". Slight soiling and creasing to edges.
An elderly couple; a man is revolted by the medicine which his wife pours into a bowl to feed him. A book, titled 'Buchan' lies on the table. From "Takings or, the Life of a Collegian". Medical print.
[Ref: 24034] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
En gouterai-je?
L. Noël. Lithog: de F. Noël.
Publié par Giraldon-Boivinet et Comp.ie, M.de d'estampes, Commissionnaires, rue Pavée St André, N.º 5.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Some cockling of paper at top corners, dusty.
'Will I taste it?'. A man in an embroidered dressing gown and nightcap stirs a cup, with an uncorked medicine bottle on the table next to him.
[Ref: 62447] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
L. Noël. Lithog: de F. Noël.
Publié par Giraldon-Boivinet et Comp.ie, M.de d'estampes, Commissionnaires, rue Pavée St André, N.º 5.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Some cockling of paper at top corners, dusty.
'Will I taste it?'. A man in an embroidered dressing gown and nightcap stirs a cup, with an uncorked medicine bottle on the table next to him.
[Ref: 62447] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Visit to a Sister. 249.
Published 1st. June, 1789, by R. Sayer, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Rare mezzotint with original hand colour. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, margins rebuilt.
An interior scene with two sisters sitting close together on a sofa, one wearing a hat with 'King' inscribed on the hat-band. The other holds a tea cup and points at a letter.
[Ref: 55307] £420.00
Published 1st. June, 1789, by R. Sayer, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Rare mezzotint with original hand colour. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, margins rebuilt.
An interior scene with two sisters sitting close together on a sofa, one wearing a hat with 'King' inscribed on the hat-band. The other holds a tea cup and points at a letter.
[Ref: 55307] £420.00
The Siege of Warwick Castle, or The Battle between the Fellows & Licenciates.
[Oxford Magazine, n.d., August 1768.
Engraving. 115 x 185mm (4½ x 7¼"). Hole on plate mark patched.
A satire on an invasion of the College of Physicians at Warwick Lane in London, when 'Licenciates' (doctors not educated at English universities, usually because they were non-conformist) broken in to harass the fellows. However here the fellows are the government, lead by a skeletal 'Death', and the licenciates are Scots led by Lord Bute in a jester's hat and jack-boots. Weapons include a huge syringe and a urinal. One of the fellows says 'They pretend to cure the Kings Evil'.
BM Satires 4173.
[Ref: 45053] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Oxford Magazine, n.d., August 1768.
Engraving. 115 x 185mm (4½ x 7¼"). Hole on plate mark patched.
A satire on an invasion of the College of Physicians at Warwick Lane in London, when 'Licenciates' (doctors not educated at English universities, usually because they were non-conformist) broken in to harass the fellows. However here the fellows are the government, lead by a skeletal 'Death', and the licenciates are Scots led by Lord Bute in a jester's hat and jack-boots. Weapons include a huge syringe and a urinal. One of the fellows says 'They pretend to cure the Kings Evil'.
BM Satires 4173.
[Ref: 45053] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)