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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 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
Patients consulting an obese quack
1 painting : watercolour ; image 29.9 x 23.8 cm
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…
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. ...
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…
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…
Surgical instruments laid out on a table, for use in cataract and hernia operations during the mid 1500s, with two men in 16th century dress standing behind it
Colour facsimile process print after a 16th century manuscript, 1925
Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons
"Holbein prepared this cartoon for a large-scale work to commemorate the grant of a royal charter to the Company of Barbers and the Guild of Surgeons on their merger in 1540. Presumably at the request of his clients, Holbein based the design on that…
Feldtbůh der Wundartzney: newlich getruckt vnd gebessert
[6], cv, [1] leaves, [2] folded leaves of plates
Binding Note:
NLM copy, bound contemporary blind-stamped paneled calf, with two metal clasps on leather.
Binding Note:
NLM copy, bound contemporary blind-stamped paneled calf, with two metal clasps on leather.