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The print contrasts Pitt's use of cash to support his Austrian allies with Napoleon's use of military force. Pitt is represented both as an accoucheur or man-midwife (he has a pair of forceps labeled "Income tax" sticking out of his pocket) and as a…

1 print : line engraving and etching ; image 12.5 x 19.2 cm

The medicine vendor stands on the right, in front of his stand. He wears decorative clothes and holds up a flask of his medicine. In front of him are his props: conjuring equipment, musical instruments, tame animals. Among the crowd watching him are…

1 print : mezzotint, with watercolour and gouache ; platemark 14.9 x 11.3 cm

The print contains three pieces of dialogue and several annotations

1 print : etching, with watercolour

The tractors. A new discovered virtue in these invaluable operators most cordially recommeded to the public at large and to Dr. Perkins in…

1 print : etching, with watercolour

shears on the ground

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 30.3 x 22.2 cm
Lettering continues: "If the common soft or tub soap made into a moderate strong lather, or half an ounce of liquor potassoe in twelve ounces of distill'd water - which is the late Dr.…

1 print : etching ; platemark 17 x 11.7 cm
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,…

Dialogue includes: Mr. Punch sings, sotto voce:- Begone, Dulcamarac I prythee begone from me! Begone, Dulcamara, Thou and I will never agree! ...

The quack hawks his wares. The description states woe over ability of quacks to perform surgery and…