Axial Commons Image Treasury
Hand-coloured caricature: a bird-headed figure in a black hat leans over a reclining bare-chested man, framed with lettering reading Dead House.

Benjamin Harrison, the autocratic treasurer of Guy's hospital, receiving tributes from Sir Astley Cooper and his associates. Coloured lithograph attributed to R. Cruikshank, ca. 1830.

A brown, bird-like creature wearing a black hat leans with a long beak over a reclining, bare-chested man in a hand-coloured lithograph. Framed by a double border, the scene carries lettering reading "Dead House" and "Art thou dead friend?", with a crate marked in small print beside them.

Artist
Isaac Robert Cruikshank
Date
1830
Medium
Caricatures Lithographs
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3695 px
Download full size
Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1830.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

Español: Caricatura de una figura con cabeza de ave sobre un hombre recostado

Una criatura parecida a un ave, de plumaje marrón y sombrero negro, se inclina con un pico largo sobre un hombre recostado, con el torso desnudo, en una litografía coloreada a mano. Enmarcada por un doble borde, la escena lleva inscripciones que dicen «Dead House» y «Art thou dead friend?», junto a una caja con letras pequeñas.

Português: Caricatura de figura com cabeça de ave sobre homem recostado

Uma criatura semelhante a uma ave, de plumagem marrom e chapéu preto, inclina-se com um bico longo sobre um homem recostado, de torso nu, em uma litografia colorida à mão. Emoldurada por uma borda dupla, a cena traz inscrições com os dizeres «Dead House» e «Art thou dead friend?», ao lado de uma caixa com letras miúdas.

More from Anatomy and Medicine

Engraving of a laughing man with curly hair, narrowed eyes and wide open mouth, under the heading 'Of Laughter and Weeping'.Essays on the anatomy of expression in painting / By Charles Bell.Engraved plate of galvanism experiments: nude bodies in arched frames above, and two men in coats working beside a body on a table below.Essai theórique et expeŕimental sur le galvanisme, avec une seŕie d'expeŕiences faites en Engraving of an asylum ward where a man on the floor grips his head as attendants restrain his legs, surrounded by patients and a woman in white.An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two aEngraving of Aaron raising a censer among robed figures, with bodies lying on the ground and tents in the distance.Aaron staying the plague. I. Taylor after I. Taylor junior, 1815.Black-and-white lithograph of a crowded gin palace with skeleton figures on pillars and drinkers in top hats in the foreground.A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by Hand-coloured 1835 caricature of a man and a woman seated at a round table in a room filled with statues and framed figure prints.A gouty man surrounded by his collection of artefacts, telling his doctor how they keep tu