| Creator |
Collings, Samuel, active 1784-1789, died 1795. |
| Title |
Magnetic Dispensary. |
| Date |
1790 |
| Physical Description |
Oil on canvas ; 17 1/2 x 22 1/2 ; Framed: 23 x 28 3/8 x 3 inches. |
| Is referenced by |
Haslam, Fiona. From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Liverpool: Liverpool University
Press, 1996, p. 210-213.
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| Notes |
This painting satirically illustrates animal magnetism or magnetic therapy. On the wall are three pictures: Loutherbourg,
an artist turned quack, Yeldell (with donkey ears) a follower of Mesmer, and probably de Mainaudiac, a doctor who advertised
magnetic cures and animal magnetism. Also in the painting are packets of "Mag Snuff" and an open book that reads, "Magnetic
Effluvia" and "List of Cures" with a dog urinating on it.
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Labels on the back read “1831 From James S. Earle & Sons, Earle’s Galleries, No. 816 Chestnut Street Philadelphia” and “Library
Company of Philadelphia. 3775.”
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Engraving in The Attic Miscellany. London: Bentley, 1791 (Vol. I, pictured on p. 121). Engraving is signed: Drawn by Collings,
etched by Barlow, published by Bentley & Co., 1790.
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| Subject |
Animal magnetism. |
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Magnetic healing. |
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Mesmerism. |
| Genre |
Painting. |
| Location |
OBJ 116 |
| Accession number |
OBJ 116 |
