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The men are raising their glasses to drink a toast; the hamper with the bottles is nearly empty and some of the empty bottles are scattered on the floor

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 11.3 x 15.8 cm

Gentlemen gathering for a joyful celebration after a foxhunt. Engraving by C. Warren after L. Clennell.

Martyrdom of Saint Stephen. Engraving by C. Warren, 1816, after E. Bird.

An episode in Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), part I, chapter 8, surrounded by an ornate frame

1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 14.8 x 9.7 cm

After attacking a windmill believed to be a giant, Don Quixote and his horse Rocinante lie on the ground, while Sancho Panza rides to their rescue. Engraving by C.T. Warren, 1796, after R. Corbould.

In Le Sage's picaresque novel Gil Blas, Gil Blas is the servant to canon Sedillo of Valladolid. In Gil Blas book II, chapter 2, the canon overeats and has gout. A fever takes him, aggravating his gout, on which, the first time in his life, he summons Dr Sangrado, the Hippocrates of Valladolid. Sangrado finds arrested transpiration. To compensate for the defect, he recommends, in preference to purges and sudorifics, a plain diet; drinking of water instead of wine; and copious bloodletting by a surgeon. At the end of the chapter the canon dies from the effects of the treatment
The editor of the Paris 1821 edition proposed that Sangrado was modelled on [Philippe] Hecquet, dean of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, "qui fit maigre toute sa vie et ne but jamais que de l'eau" (vol. 2, p. 115). He notes that in Spanish sangrado means let of blood. Possibly bloodletter (sangrador) was intended. The text of Gil Blas does not say that Sangrado took the canon's pulse: it says he observed him and then asked him questions about his diet and age
The canon is very fat and the doctor very thin. The canon rests his gouty foot on a stool. Sangrado has a cane, is dressed in black, and has waxed moustaches. In the background, Jacinte watches Gil Blas carry in a pail of steaming liquid

1 print : line engraving and etching ; image and border 13.7 x 9.4 cm

Dr Sangrado taking the pulse of a sick clergyman. Engraving by Thurston, 1802, after C. Warren after A. Le Sage.

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2 volumes (xxiv, 461 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates; 4 unnumbered pages, 601 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations, frontispiece

The anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and severall cures of it : in three partitions : with their severall sections, members, and subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened and cut up / by Democritus Junior. With satyricall preface conducing to the following discourse.

1 print : engraving, on etching ; image with border 9.1 x 5.7 cm

A woman sitting by the bed of a dying man. Engraving by C. Warren after H. Corbould.

1 print : line engraving with etching ; platemark 21.5 x 13.5 cm

Joan of Arc conjures demons in Shakespeare's 'Henry VI'; but the demons are uncompliant; one hangs his head on the left. Engraving by C. Warren, 1805, after J. Thurston.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 15.7 x 10 cm

A man with papers in his hand looks questioningly at a young woman (Pamela) who turns her face away. Engraving by C. Warren, 1801, after R. Corbould.

1 print : engraving ; image 9.5 x 16.4 cm

Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a broken segmental pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by C. Warren, 1808, after C. Cibber, 1680.

King George III half-length to right in oval

1 print : engraving ; platemark 18 x 10.6 cm, image 9 x 6.8 cm

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Gentlemen gathering for a joyful celebration after a foxhunt. Engraving by C. Warren after L. Clennell.

Martyrdom of Saint Stephen. Engraving by C. Warren, 1816, after E. Bird.

After attacking a windmill believed to be a giant, Don Quixote and his horse Rocinante lie on the ground, while Sancho Panza rides to their rescue. Engraving by C.T. Warren, 1796, after R. Corbould.

Dr Sangrado taking the pulse of a sick clergyman. Engraving by Thurston, 1802, after C. Warren after A. Le Sage.

A woman sitting by the bed of a dying man. Engraving by C. Warren after H. Corbould.

Joan of Arc conjures demons in Shakespeare's 'Henry VI'; but the demons are uncompliant; one hangs his head on the left. Engraving by C. Warren, 1805, after J. Thurston.

A man with papers in his hand looks questioningly at a young woman (Pamela) who turns her face away. Engraving by C. Warren, 1801, after R. Corbould.

Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a broken segmental pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by C. Warren, 1808, after C. Cibber, 1680.

King George III. Engraving by C. Warren after R. Corbould, 1791.

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Gentlemen gathering for a joyful celebration after a foxhunt. Engraving by C. Warren after L. Clennell.

Martyrdom of Saint Stephen. Engraving by C. Warren, 1816, after E. Bird.

After attacking a windmill believed to be a giant, Don Quixote and his horse Rocinante lie on the ground, while Sancho Panza rides to their rescue. Engraving by C.T. Warren, 1796, after R. Corbould.

Dr Sangrado taking the pulse of a sick clergyman. Engraving by Thurston, 1802, after C. Warren after A. Le Sage.

A woman sitting by the bed of a dying man. Engraving by C. Warren after H. Corbould.

Joan of Arc conjures demons in Shakespeare's 'Henry VI'; but the demons are uncompliant; one hangs his head on the left. Engraving by C. Warren, 1805, after J. Thurston.

A man with papers in his hand looks questioningly at a young woman (Pamela) who turns her face away. Engraving by C. Warren, 1801, after R. Corbould.

Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a broken segmental pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by C. Warren, 1808, after C. Cibber, 1680.

King George III. Engraving by C. Warren after R. Corbould, 1791.

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