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Mediaeval torturers torture a gout-sufferer; representing the view attributed to Fabricius von Hilden that gout could be cured by torture.
1 print : half-tone, printed in colour ; image 14.8 x 12.3 cm.
La torture est-elle bonne pour les goutteux?... Page 5. de Losques. Éditée par la "Pipérazine Midy"
La torture est-elle bonne pour les goutteux?... Page 5. de Losques. Éditée par la "Pipérazine Midy"
Doctor Pean
1 photomechanical print : image and text 26 x 21 cm., on sheet 39 x 29 cm.
A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them
The Opposition politicians are represented as quacks beguiling the people with advocacy of reform and clamour against corruption in high places. Samuel Whitbread stands on a platform holding a placard inscribed "Infallible panacea-Reform"; in his…
Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd
1 print : etching and aquatint, with watercolour
Lettering continues: "High oe'r the gaping crowd, on market day. While Andrew drolls the blockheads pence away, see the bold rogue pretending to restore, loves long lost fountain, that must flow no…
Lettering continues: "High oe'r the gaping crowd, on market day. While Andrew drolls the blockheads pence away, see the bold rogue pretending to restore, loves long lost fountain, that must flow no…
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. ...
Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians
In the background is a crowd of revelling quacks, some of them proclaiming they can cure Britannia's ills, perhaps referring to the Opposition
1 print : etching ; image 18.4 x 23.2 cm
State quacks - or the desperate condition of the wither'd…
1 print : etching ; image 18.4 x 23.2 cm
State quacks - or the desperate condition of the wither'd…
Patients consulting an obese quack
1 painting : watercolour ; image 29.9 x 23.8 cm
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
John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform
1 print : aquatint and etching ; image 16.2 x 34 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…