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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 painting : watercolour ; image 29.9 x 23.8 cm

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

1 print : aquatint and etching ; image 16.2 x 34 cm

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…

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 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 : 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…

1 print : mezzotint, with watercolour and gouache ; platemark 13.2 x 11.2 cm