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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Le Charlatan]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[A public square in a French port, in which a medicine vendor cries up his wares to an audience of traders and strollers. Coloured aquatint by J. Léveillé, 1785, after A. Borel.]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 a well-dressed couple, he old and using a quizzing glass, she younger and surreptitiously passing a billet doux to a lover. Others among the spectators are from Turkey or the Levant<br />
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Right background, three wooden houses containing shops: left to right a coffee house (presumably &quot;[Ca]fé&quot;), a house advertising a tightrop walker (&quot;Grands danseur du Roy&quot;), and a shop (&quot;Magazin de modes&quot;) selling fashionable knicknacks (fans, hats, vases, clocks etc.) Right foreground, some bales and goods traded at the port<br />
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Left, the port, with a statue of a woman personifying Hope and Plenty. Behind and centre, a substantial stone building, presumably a customs house<br />
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The medicine vendors&#039; banner contains lettering &quot;Par permission du Roy&quot; and a painting of the medicine vendor treating a seated lady, possibly by laying on of hands<br />
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1 print : aquatint, with etching and watercolour ; image and borders 37.5 x 53.5 cm<br />
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    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Wellcome<br />
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/yc97jugw]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Paris (rue de la Harpe, au coin de celle Poupée, no. 182) : chez Vidal graveur, [1785]<br />
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