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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…

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 26 x 36.2 cm

1 print : etching ; platemark 13.1 x 9 cm
Poster stuck on wall of cottage reads "Leake's pills. Mercury exploded, desperate cases cured in three days. Mortified limbs scraped with a coal shovel. Flesh regenerated on bare bones." A sheet on the…

1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 35.3 x 25.1 cm
The ludicrous operator, or blacksmith turn'd tooth drawer. Why squeeze your hat, and seize my cap as if you dreaded some mishap? Keep not your spirits on the rack, I'm a licentiate not a quack. Designed…

The lettering mentions sleep disorders, anxiety, fear and violence. The man appears to be reaching for a beer jug; broken crockery and furniture lie on the ground. In the background, two performers (one holding scales, the other possibly a snake)…

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
Lettering continues:…