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The arms emblazoned of the new enlightened trading fraternity of obstetric, pharmaceutic, veterinarian, barberian, magnetic chirurgeons,   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The arms emblazoned of the new enlightened trading fraternity of obstetric, pharmaceutic, veterinarian, barberian, magnetic chirurgeons,
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English: A burlesque escutcheon for the (abortive) College of Surgeons. The title continues: 'duly instituted by the Nation in the first Year of the British Republic, one and indivisible'. The supporters are, dexter, the 'D------ of B------D' [Bedford], sinister, 'Tom Paine'. The former holds his severed head, saying: "Ah well a day my Cropt Head". Beside him are two books: 'Age of Reason' and 'Sporting Cal'. Paine points at Bedford derisively, saying: "So much for Ducal Patriotism". Beside him are two books: 'Rights of Man' (see BMSat 7867, &c.) and 'Rights of Surgeons'. Each holds a Tree of Liberty. The escutcheon rests on corpses and skulls, which are supported by the motto: 'Quæ nocent omnibus artes'. The arms are described: 'Arms. Quarterly Ist Gules, a Forceps and Fœtus proper for Midwifery, 2nd and 3rd Or, three Glister Bags & pipes fœcant and a pestle & Mortar Argent for Pharmacy. - 4th three Horse shoes in a field Vert, for Farriery. The Escutcheon of pretence for the new Surgeons. Viz. Gules, a lately converted Instrument for performing Amputations [a guillotine].


Crest. The Head of a furious Animal call'd a Hurlo Thrumbo, issuing rampant from an Apothecarys Mortar with a Barbers pole red rag, and porringer [see BMSat 9092] in his Sinister paw. [A scaly creature with a tail and a man's head wearing an old-fashioned hat and wig to indicate that he is a surgeon.]
Supporters. On the dexter, a Ci-de-vant british Peer. Gorged, with his Head in his hand (crownd with a ducal Coronet) weeping for his folly, he supports the Tree of Liberty.
On the Sinister, a republican reformer Triumphant, with his Bonnet rouge and tree of Liberty.
Under the Shield are many Patients, who have been cured [i.e. corpses and
skulls].' 6 April 1798


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Depicted people Associated with: Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 306 millimetres
Width: 257 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1880,0807.16
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

For the College of Surgeons see BMSat 9092, &c. Bedford was noted for his cropped hair, cf. 'A Bit of an Ode to Mr. Fox', 'Anti-Jacobin', 29 Jan. 1798. For the Tree of Liberty see BMSat 9214, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-0807-16
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