Browse Items (18 total)

1 print : 33 x 26 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
lithograph, color

Leaflet advertising George Jones' Friendly Pills, Balsam and Electuary. These were supposed to cure: scurvy, lameness, stone, dropsy, gonorrhoea and other venereal diseases, urinary disorders, ulcers, worms, constipation, gangrene, pain, cough, ague…

Gladstone holds up 'Home Rule Ointment' and his caravan bears various inscriptions: 'Dr. Gladstone's infallible Home Rule Ointment', 'The heart Midlothian', 'Gladstonia glamour', 'Capacity of a radical voters stomach'

1 print : chromolithograph ;…

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…

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour.

1 print : etching ; platemark 17.1 x 14.1 cm

The pill-box probably contains remedies for venereal disease. The larger machine is for reducing a dislocated shoulder while the smaller one provides an elaborate way of drawing a cork from a bottle. The doctor polishes his spectacles beside a human…

1 print : mezzotint, with gouache and watercolour ; platemark 14.9 x 11. cm

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
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