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MEDICAL CARICATURES. With a Foreword by Morris H.Saffron Rowlandson, Thomas
New York Editions Medicina Rara 1971
Looking at these prints one is tempted to feel sorry for the medical profession. They are indeed harsh but one must also recognize the state if the profession in the beginning if the nineteenth century. The medical profession was poorly regulated at this time, permitting quacks to erode public confidence in the profession. Resultingly the doctors in these prints are usually portrayed as such, drunken sots, body snatchers, and money grubbers. A dark, yet humorous work from a master of satirical art. This portfolio is number CC/X of 300 of the deluxe edition double suites from 2800 (2500 were single copies). Two copies of each of the twelve prints loose in a bolton buckram lined portfolio box covered in Curtis Tweedweave laid paper created by Brick & Ballerstein, Long Island City, New York. Box faded, one side defective. A couple protective sheets with creases but actual prints near fine to fine. Classic Rowlandson.
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404.55 USD
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The Dance of Life - By the Author of Dr. Syntax Rowlandson, Thomas:illustrator/Combe, William:author
London Ackermann and Comany 1817 First Edition Rowlandson, Thomas
small 4to. This is a beautiful copy of the first edition of one of Rowlandson's finest works. Engraved title, frontispiece, and 24 acquatint plates HAND-COLORED. Rebound in 3 quarter red Russian morocco with gilt accents, spine with 5 raised bands with title and bands accented in gilt as well, top edge gilt. Interior near fine with tissue guard a little chipped at edges, a hint a darkening of a few pages, else interior is excellent and clean. - "Possessed of much facility of execution and a ready command of the figure, Rowlandson was spoken of as a promising student; and had he continued his early application he would have made his mark as a painter. But by the death of his aunt, a French lady, he fell heir to a sum of 7ooo British Pounds, plunged into the dissipations of the town and was known to sit at the gaming-table for thirty-six hours at a stretch. In time poverty overtook him; and the friendship and example of Gillray and Bunbury seem to have suggested caricature as a means of filling an empty purse." Rowlandsons designs were usually executed in outline with the reed-pen, and delicately washed with color. They were than etched by the artist on the copper, and afterwards aqua-tinted usually by a professional engraver, the impressions being finally colored by hand. His work is represented in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum. Overall a finecopy of an early and important work by one of the masters of early carricature.
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1851.29 USD
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