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The royal courtly garland. Or, joy after sorrow.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Pictures
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A sick man stranded on the toilet after taking a laxative. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
Sneyd, John.Date: 28 January 1804Reference: 12068i- Books
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A comment on the Rev'd Mr. Warburton's Alliance between church and state. Shewing that an ecclesiastical-establishment and a test-law are not supportable on his reasoning; either, from the Essence and End of Civil Society, or, from the fundamental Principles of the Law of Nature and Nations. Herein His two famous Illustrations from Prescription and the Game-Laws are examined - The Quaker's Scruples about Tythes are clearly resolved - And a few Observations on Mr. White's Letters to a Dissenting-Gentleman are occasionally interspersed. Together With some natural and useful Reflexions.
Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The garland of trials.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
Early British swimming, 55 BC-AD 1719 : with the first swimming treatise in English, 1595 / by Nicholas Orme.
Orme, Nicholas.Date: 1983- Books
The little republic : masculinity and domestic authority in eighteenth-century Britain / Karen Harvey.
Harvey, Karen, 1971-Date: 2012- Pictures
An elderly man throwing his head back to swallow some pills and in the process tossing water all over himself. Coloured aquatint after M. Egerton, 1827.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: 1827Reference: 11861i- Pictures
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A fashionable lady asking her doctor what ailments he can invent for her - so that she convince her husband to take her to Cannes. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Prance, 1927.
Prance, Bertram, 1889-Date: 1927Reference: 15478i- Books
Mad-doctors in the dock : defending the diagnosis, 1760-1913 / Joel Peter Eigen.
Eigen, Joel Peter, 1947-Date: [2016]- Pictures
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A coachman, a cook and a household servant in a state of intoxication refuse to open the door of their quarters to their master. Etching by James Bretherton after T. Orde Powlett.
Orde, Thomas, 1746-1807.Date: 23d Feb.y 1774Reference: 29647i- Pictures
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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 after W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: March 1829Reference: 12222i- Books
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The tragical ballad: or, the lady who fell in love with her serving-man.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Pictures
Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.
Reference: 12210i- Books
David Le Marchand : "an ingenious man for carving in ivory," 1674-1726 / [exhibition prepared by] the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities of the British Museum, the National Gallery of Scotland and Leeds City Art Gallery ; in conjunction with the guest curator, Dr. Charles Avery.
British Museum. Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities.Date: [1996], ©1996- Pictures
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A disgruntled portly man standing next to a town water pump holding a ladle and rubbing his stomach as if in pain. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1831.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 6 March 1831Reference: 12081i- Pictures
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A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.Date: 1 August 1835Reference: 11869i- Pictures
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Dr Fossil, an evolutionist, coming up against an interested couple's misguided views, at an anthropological society meeting. Wood engraving by W. Mackay, 1873.
Mackay, Wallis.Date: 4 January 1873Reference: 13806i- Pictures
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A gagging man surrounded by confused consultants and medical students. Coloured etching, 1800.
Date: 18 April 1800Reference: 11639i- Pictures
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A man with an excruciating headache. Coloured etching by H. Cook, 1827, after M. Egerton.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: April 1827Reference: 11885i- Books
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A letter to the electors of Westminster. Gentlemen, An Advertisement being handed about, subscribed with the Name of a noble Lord, no doubt maliciously intending to impose on the worthy Inhabitants, and prejudice him in their Favour at this Time, I thought it incumbent on me as a Lover of Truth, to submit the following Remarks on that Piece. - Is it to be supposed, that noble Person, so remarkable for his shining abilities as well as hereditary Honour, would have suffered Nonsense and Quibble to flow from his Pen? Would he, when charged with being active at the French Theatre, have thought it a sufficient Justification to plead, his not being particularly in the Pit or Gallery, just at such a particular Time?-Would he, when accused of being aiding in an Attack upon his Fellow Citizens, have foolishly imagined that denying his Presence in a first or chief Disturbance, acquitted him of All-No. I am persuaded his Lordship would have proved himself an Englishman, by shewing that he was so far from abetting such foreign Vagabonds, that his utmost Endeavours were excrted in discouraging their Subscriptions, opposing their Licence, and disapproving their Performance. - Such doubtless would have been his Lordship's Defence to the Publick, had he thought it necessary to make one. Indeed it is alledged, that many of his own Constituents were Witnesses of his Heroism on this Occasion, but may they not be subject to a personal Mistake?-It is no uncommon Case for the Member of a Borough to be the greatest Stranger in it, and indeed I do not remember to have seen or heard any Thing material of this noble Lord 'till this heroic Adventure, since his last Election. Upon the whole, I think it is manifest this Advertisement was maliciously levelled at the Head and Heart of our noble Candidate, in order to make his Electors believe, neither of them are properly qualified for their Service. I am, Gentlemen, Yours, An Elector.
Elector.Date: 1749]- Pictures
William Cobbett is joined by six drunkards who applaud his toast of "damnation to the House of Brunswick"; representing British parliamentary reform. Etching by J. Gillray, ca. 1809.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 29 September 1809Reference: 26481iPart of: The life of William Cobbett, - written by himself- Pictures
A nonchalant doctor dancing a jig amidst unhappy patients in a decrepit hospital ward. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1813.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 25 June 1813Reference: 11629i- Pictures
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A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1807?]Reference: 11208i- Books
The state trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell / edited by Brian Cowan.
Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724Date: [2012]- Pictures
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop being attacked by Susannah with a saucepan, while the nurse holds the baby Tristram Shandy. Etching after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 22015iPart of: Twelve prints representing the most interesting sentimental and humorous scenes in Tristram Shandy