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A Company of Physicians
The three named quacks occupy the top of the shield, twelve other 'doctors' are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal which another holds. Two pairs of crossed human…
A Consultation of Surgeons
1 print : 11 x 16 cm.
Technique:
engraving
Technique:
engraving
A doctor in purgator!!
1 print : 54 x 44 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
aquatint and etching
note: the gender ambiguity of the 'demons'
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
aquatint and etching
note: the gender ambiguity of the 'demons'
A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune
From the cornucopia next to Bacchus tumbles a mixture of money, games (including playing cards, dice and a chessboard), medicine bottles, cups and ladles. To the right, Hygieia, daughter of Asklepios, holds the latter's attributes: a cock, and a…
A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company
Contents
The family M.D. The obscene M.D. The obstetric M.D. who makes the diseases of women his particular study. The mesmeric M.D.
Lettering note
The central column is a nine point list of the principles of Morison's system. A similar version to…
The family M.D. The obscene M.D. The obstetric M.D. who makes the diseases of women his particular study. The mesmeric M.D.
Lettering note
The central column is a nine point list of the principles of Morison's system. A similar version to…
A High German Doctor, or a Cure for a Complaint in the Bowels
The doctor is accompanied by a black assistant who wears a crown and carries a basket of medicines, with a handbill saying "All sorts of incurable disorder cured"
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 19.6 x 24.9 cm
Lettering continues:…
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 19.6 x 24.9 cm
Lettering continues:…
A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees
Description
A story described in an epigram by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Epigrammes, 1723, lib. I, epigram XI (from which the lettering on the present print was copied)
1 print : line engraving with etching ; image 31.8 x 25.3 cm
L'operateur…
A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares
1 print : etching ; platemark 31.8 x 23.3 cm
Lettering continues: "Allen staenden, leuten, die es am wenigsten glauben, Leuten, die von der Betrügerey leben, diesen ist die Ehr lichkeit, oder welches einerley ist, der Schein der Ehr lichkeit am…
Lettering continues: "Allen staenden, leuten, die es am wenigsten glauben, Leuten, die von der Betrügerey leben, diesen ist die Ehr lichkeit, oder welches einerley ist, der Schein der Ehr lichkeit am…
A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor
1 photomechanical reproduction : lithograph
Lettering
Elle. -Le médecin est un peu comme un confesseur? Le docteur. -...Alors vous lui faites voir tout ca? ; Abel Faivre
Lettering
Elle. -Le médecin est un peu comme un confesseur? Le docteur. -...Alors vous lui faites voir tout ca? ; Abel Faivre