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A tooth-drawer holding up a tooth he has just extracted on stage to try and sell his skills; his two companions are treating a sick man
1 print : etching ; platemark 22.2 x 25 cm
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…
Consultation 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 while another holds it. Two pairs of crossed…
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
An audience of people throwing handkerchiefs (containing money?) onto a stage where an itinerant medicine vendor has been successfully selling his wares.
Lettering continues: "T is geen diogenes die hier staatvoor syn ton, die gemelyke vent, die gisper van de zeden, die gek, die metsyn bek geen enkele stuyver won, 't is Tiatjeron, messieurs, begaast met taal en reden, die salf en oly venten vrolyk…
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…