Gravure Radcliffe Hogarth Marriage Mode medisch kwakzalver

• Marriage à la Mode
• The Scene with the Quack
• engraved by W Radclyffe
• From the original picture by William Hogarth
• Jones & Co Temple of the Muses Finsbury Square London
• originele gravure van rond 1830
• formaat 22,5 x 20
• afbeelding 12,2 x 15 cm

Beschrijving van de attributen in de kamer van de kwakzalver op het schilderij van Hogarth:
De gravure is in spiegelbeeeld, dus links is rechts en niet alle kleine details van het schilderij zijn in de gravure verwerkt.

• The cabinet on the left has shelves crammed with apothecary's pots and a wolf's head on the top. On the left wall are two paintings of monsters: one is a man with his head below his shoulders underneath two mummies, and the other of a two headed hermaphrodite.

• The cabinet against the rear wall has a door ajar, revealing a skeleton suggestively leaning against an embalmed body. There is also a long wig on a plaster head.

• Fixed to the wall and on top of the cabinet, from left to right, there are: a narwal tusk (a classic phallic symbol), a pile of pill boxes, a bleeding basin (identified because of its scalloped side), a glass urinal, a giant plaster head with a huge femur behind, an alchemist's tripod for holding flasks over burners (or a gallows tree), a broken mediaevial comb, a tall red Jacobean hat, two mismatched mediaeval shoes, a spur buckler and a sword and shield.

• On the ceiling is a stuffed crocodile with a large ostrich egg hanging from it.

• The extremely complicated mechanical contraptions on the right are identified by the inscription on the open book, as being for setting a dislocated shoulder and drawing corks out of wine bottles. An additional inscription on the book reads, "Inspected and approved by the Royal Academy at Paris," Hogarth emphasising the ignorance of the French and their scant knowledge of medicine.
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