File:Modern moonshine, or the wonders of Great Britain (BM 1868,0808.4522).jpg
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Modern moonshine, or the wonders of Great Britain |
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Description |
English: A scene on the sea-shore. A hoven cow, that is, a cow dangerously distended by eating green food, is being operated upon by a man who stands on a raised platform and pierces her flank with a pole; in his right hand is a curved pipe for the injection of smoke. Three country-people and a child gape in astonishment holding up their hands; a fat alderman in a furred gown does the same; from his pocket hangs a paper inscribed, "Nine Days he liv'd in Clover". On the right. three doctors or apothecaries are attending an emaciated and seemingly-dead woman (right), who lies on straw, dressed only in a shift: one puffs smoke from a tobacco-pipe up her nostrils, another applies a pair of bellows, the third listens through an ear-trumpet. It appears that while the cow suffers from a surfeit, the woman dies of starvation. On the ground lies the hat of one of the doctors, in which is a letter, "To Mr Blake Plymoth". Three spectators (left) watch the efforts of the doctors: one, an oriental, wearing a turban and draperies, holds out his hands in astonishment; he appears to represent the wisdom of the East (or the noble savage) confronted with the effects of English civilization. His two companions, fashionably dressed Englishmen, look on unmoved.
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Depicted people | Associated with: Mr Blake | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1774 date QS:P571,+1774-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4522 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) A satire on the distresses, high food-prices, and financial failures of 1773-4, with some special application to Plymouth, where possibly 'Mr Blake' and 'Mr R------s' are niggardly parish officers, who have allowed a poor woman to starve to death. Cf. BMSat 5233, also a satire on social injustice. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4522 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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