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Sudden Breaking up of a Consultation
Central scene shows rivalry between doctors and their respective quack remedies. The scenes below show 'a few specimens of the public in general!!', while the six scenes at the bottom begin with a fat woman tending pots at a stove, 'Ruling the…
A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on
1 print : mezzotint, with watercolour and gouache ; platemark 13.2 x 11.2 cm
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…
Quackery Unmasked. Or, Empiricism displayed
A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators
1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 20.1 x 32.8 cm
1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 20.1 x 32.8 cm
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 salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people
1 print : etching ; platemark 32.2 x 41.3 cm
Lettering
Il ciarlatano, in Roma. Pinelli inv. et inc.
The salesman is holding a box full of medicines which has "Sanitas" inscribed on it. In the background, a papal coat of arms
Lettering
Il ciarlatano, in Roma. Pinelli inv. et inc.
The salesman is holding a box full of medicines which has "Sanitas" inscribed on it. In the background, a papal coat of arms
Hans Buling (?), an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of a monkey and a performer dressed as Harlequin
1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 16.3 x 11.7 cm
The infallible mountebank or quack doctor. ...
The infallible mountebank or quack doctor. ...
Surgical instruments laid out on a table, for use in cataract and hernia operations during the mid 1500s, with two men in 16th century dress standing behind it
Colour facsimile process print after a 16th century manuscript, 1925
Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons
"Holbein prepared this cartoon for a large-scale work to commemorate the grant of a royal charter to the Company of Barbers and the Guild of Surgeons on their merger in 1540. Presumably at the request of his clients, Holbein based the design on that…