145 results
- Pictures
A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.
Reference: 11901i- Pictures
- Online
An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 30 July 1801Reference: 16388i- Pictures
- Online
A man barking and drinking port, following a doctor's orders. Coloured aquatint by I. Wilson after M. Egerton, 182-..
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: [1825?]Reference: 11877i- Pictures
William Pitt the younger leads a group of ministers out of the Treasury as the Opposition in the guise of the rabble are held back by a grenadier sentry holding a bayonet. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585509i- Pictures
- Online
A bare-knuckled boxing match between the Prince of Wales and Napoleon, with their supporters including a black man. Coloured etching by Charles Williams, 1815.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 1 October 1815Reference: 38401i- Pictures
- Online
A group of merry, dancing former invalids discarding their medicines in favour of alcohol as a cure. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1827, after T. Lane.
Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828.Date: 1827Reference: 11893i- Pictures
Mrs Billington the singer being spoon-fed money by Lewis and Sheridan; showing the incentives offered by those competing for her services. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1802.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 16 January 1802Reference: 11635i- Pictures
- Online
King George III and Queen Charlotte, seated at a latrine, receive with agitation news from William Pitt the younger, who tells them that the King of Sweden had been assassinated. Etching by J. Gillray, 1792.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 11 April 1792Reference: 12180i- Pictures
Bonnell Thornton lying ill in bed, consulting three physicians and pointing out their inadequacies. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Reference: 11631i- Pictures
N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: [26 February 1811]Reference: 16635i- Pictures
- Online
Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1 March 1830Reference: 12228i- Pictures
- Online
A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1807, after T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: October 1807Reference: 11876iPart of: Miseries of human life- Pictures
- Online
Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Coloured etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1818.
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.Date: 11 December 1818Reference: 12030i- Pictures
- Online
Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1835.
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.Date: Augt.1st. 1835Reference: 35497i- Pictures
- Online
An episode in Tristram Shandy: Obadiah riding a coach horse knocks Dr. Slop off his pony into a pond, a sign to Shandy Hall hangs over him. Etching by J. Bretherton, 1773, after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: 3 February 1773Reference: 22031i- Pictures
- Online
Edward Jenner and two colleagues seeing off three anti-vaccination opponents, the dead smallpox victims are littered at their feet. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 20 June 1808Reference: 11758i- Pictures
- Online
An episode in Tristram Shandy: Obadiah, riding a coach horse, knocks Dr. Slop off his pony, a sign points to Shandy Hall. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Reference: 22029i- Pictures
Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: April 1829Reference: 12226i- Pictures
- Online
A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809Date: [1762]Reference: 12163i- Books
Complaints, controversies and grievances in medicine : historical and social science perspectives / edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Rebecca Wynter.
Date: 2015- Pictures
A horrified gouty man discovering grass is growing out of his skin, as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1835.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 5 November 1835Reference: 11859iPart of: Dawson's magic- Archives and manuscripts
Transfers
Date: 1930s-1980sReference: WA/HMM/TRPart of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Pictures
King William IV dressed as a sailor dances in the centre of a semicircle of ministers who have black bodies and are partially draped. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1830.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 19 July 1830Reference: 608213i- Pictures
King William IV sits back in an armchair with one foot resting on the base of a round table as he talks to Lord Melbourne who stands before him. Lithograph by John Doyle, 1830.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: May 17 1831Reference: 651603iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
- Online
A lecturer (William Kitchiner?) about to address a lecture on optics with the aid of candles, a telescope and magic lantern to a seated audience, he is interrupted by a Kentish hop merchant. Coloured etching, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1809?]Reference: 15968i