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From Hogarth to Rowlandson : medicine in art in eighteenth-century Britain / Fiona Haslam

From Hogarth to Rowlandson : medicine in art in eighteenth-century Britain / Fiona Haslam

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From Hogarth to Rowlandson : medicine in art in eighteenth-century Britain / Fiona Haslam

by Haslam, Fiona

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Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-330) and index. Contents: Foreword / Martin Kemp -- 1. Setting the Medical Scene: the History of the Development of Medical Practice -- 2. Medical Images in Hogarth's London: Early Satires -- i. The Rabbit Woman: art and guile in the case of Mary Toft -- ii. The Company of Undertakers -- 3. The Itinerant Quack -- 4. A Pox on You All: Medical Images in Eighteenth-Century Themes of Morality -- i. A Harlot's Progress -- ii. Marriage-a-la-Mode -- iii. Mothers' Ruin: Gin Lane and the art of alcohol abuse -- 5. Hogarth at St Bartholomew's Hospital -- 6. A Question of Taste, or a Taste of Madness -- i. The Rake's Progress -- ii. Hypochondriasis -- iii. Treatment of madness -- 7. Fashions in Health and Treatment -- i. Taking the waters -- ii. Aerial, aetherial, magnetic and electrical applications -- iii. 'Wonders! Wonders! Wonders! and Wonders!' -- iv. Animal magnetism -- v. Tractorisation -- 8. From the Womb ... -- i. Touching on midwifery -- ii. What became of the children? -- iii. Vaccination -- 9. ... To the Tomb -- i. Dentistry: a big smile -- ii. Licensed to kill? -- iii. A public anatomy -- iv. Kill or cure -- 10. The End -- i. Death comes at the end -- ii. Remember thou shalt die. Subjects: Hogarth, William 1697-1764 Criticism and interpretation. Rowlandson, Thomas 1756-1827 Criticism and interpretation. Hogarth, William 1697-1764. Rowlandson, Thomas 1756-1827. Hogarth, William 1697-1764. Rowlandson, Thomas Criticism and interpretation. Hogarth, William (1697-1764) Critique et interprtation. Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) Critique et interprtation. Grobritannien Consulate Frankfurt am Main 1700-1799. 18th century. Medicine and art Great Britain. Art, British 18th century. Art. Caricatures and cartoons. Painting. Medicine in the Arts Art Caricatures as Topic Engraving and Engravings Paintings Cartoons as Topic Mdecine et art Grande-Bretagne. Art britannique 18e sicle. Art. Caricatures et dessins humoristiques. Peinture. fine arts (discipline) works of art. caricatures. cartoons (humorous images) paintings (visual works) painting (image-making) Painting. Caricatures and cartoons. Art. Art, British. Medicine and art. Medicine and art Great Britain. Art, Modern Great Britain History. Mdecine et art Grande-Bretagne. Art Grande-Bretagne 17e sicle. Art 18e sicle Grande-Bretagne. Geschichte 1700-1800. Medicine and art Great Britain. Art, British 18th century. Art, Modern Great Britain 18th century. Modernism (Art) Great Britain 18th century. Medicine and art Great Britain History 18th century. Art, Modern 17th century. Art 17th-18th centuries Great Britain. Art, Modern 17th century Great Britain. Medicine in art. Art Great Britain. Caricature. Art, Modern 17th-18th centuries Great Britain. Medicine and art Great Britain History 18th century. Caricatures and cartoons Great Britain. Caricature Great Britain. Art, Modern 17th-18th centuries Great Britain. Medicine and art Great Britain. Art, British 18th century. Medicine and art. Medicine in the Arts Art history Physiognomy Medicine in art Great Britain 18th century Prints, British 18th century Caricatures and cartoons Great Britain Art, Modern 17th-18th centuries Great Britain Themes, motives Caricature Great Britain. Medicine ; Caricatures and cartoons. Medicine Great Britain ; Caricatures and cartoons. Physicians ; Caricatures and cartoons. Physicians Great Britain ; Caricatures and cartoons. HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY, GREAT BRITAIN. United Kingdom Great Britain. England Great Britain. Art, Modern-18th century-Great Britain Medicine and art. Art and medicine

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Title
From Hogarth to Rowlandson : medicine in art in eighteenth-century Britain / Fiona Haslam
Author
Haslam, Fiona
Format/Binding
Softcover
Book Condition
Used
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Edition
First Edition
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0853236402
ISBN 13
9780853236405
Publisher
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press
Place of Publication
U.s.a.
Date Published
1996

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