Right background, three wooden houses containing shops: left to right a coffee house (presumably "[Ca]fé"), a house advertising a tightrop walker ("Grands danseur du Roy"), and a shop ("Magazin de modes") selling fashionable knicknacks (fans, hats, vases, clocks etc.) Right foreground, some bales and goods traded at the port

Left, the port, with a statue of a woman personifying Hope and Plenty. Behind and centre, a substantial stone building, presumably a customs house

The medicine vendors' banner contains lettering "Par permission du Roy" and a painting of the medicine vendor treating a seated lady, possibly by laying on of hands

1 print : aquatint, with etching and watercolour ; image and borders 37.5 x 53.5 cm
]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/yc97jugw]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> Lettering continues: "A remarkable walking bookseller quack doctor &c. &c. hawking old books as Mosess do old cloaths. Stop gentle reader & behold a beau in boots, searching for gold, a walking bookseller, an epicure, a teacher, docter & a connoisseur. Gratis to the purchases of the Wonderful Magazine"]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xc77784y]]> Wonderful Magazine]]> ]]>
1 print : line engraving ; platemark 18.9 x 24.5 cm

Melancholicus. Anxius et niger est, timet omnia tristia, dormit, / Et violentus atro manat ab ore furor, / Insomnesque agitat violento examine curas: / Mole sua bilis quem nimis atra premit. M. de Vos inventor. Raphael Sadler scalps. Antuerpiæ.
]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/k8x8cn4z]]> ]]> Guy Tal, 'Skepticism and morality in Jacques de Gheyn II's Preparation for the witches' sabbath', Simiolus, 2022, 44: 5-27, p. 10 ("A figure with fingers intertwined became a standard signifier of melancholy")]]> ]]> 1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 19.6 x 24.9 cm
Lettering continues: "Well norse how was mine patient by dish time?" "Much better sir, the medicines had great effect." "Ah! dat is goot and dit you gif de poppies- and de bol ammoniac as I told you?" "Oh! yes sir the puppies he has eat six this morning- and I have boil'd four more he is taking now- as for the old almanack I could not get one in all the parish; but I procured a very old copy of Robin Hood, & boil'd that down in milk which has answer'd the purpose very well."


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On a machine is a book open at the title page inscribed: "Explication de deux machines superbes l'un pour remettre l'epaules l'autre pour servir de tire bouchon inventes par Monsr de La Pillule. Vues et aprouveès par l'Academie Royal des Sciences a Paris"

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1 folded sheet (4 pages) : illustrations, engr. portrait ; 34 cm
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