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Le Charlatan
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…
Dr. Ve-d-n. ...
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,…
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,…
Melancholy
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)…
A High German Doctor, or a Cure for a Complaint in the Bowels
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:…
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 19.6 x 24.9 cm
Lettering continues:…
The Blacksmith turned Touth Drawer
1 print : mezzotint, with gouache and watercolour ; platemark 14.9 x 11. cm
In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
The pill-box probably contains remedies for venereal disease. The larger machine is for reducing a dislocated shoulder while the smaller one provides an elaborate way of drawing a cork from a bottle. The doctor polishes his spectacles beside a human…
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage to an audience while his assistant draws a tooth from a man. Etching by Diebiey, 1767.
1 print : etching ; platemark 17.1 x 14.1 cm
George Jones of London
Leaflet advertising George Jones' Friendly Pills, Balsam and Electuary. These were supposed to cure: scurvy, lameness, stone, dropsy, gonorrhoea and other venereal diseases, urinary disorders, ulcers, worms, constipation, gangrene, pain, cough, ague…
[The Physician as God]
Allegorical figure of the physician as God standing among books and tools of the medical professions. Interior view with three scenes: a patient undergoing head surgery; setting of a broken leg; and a bedside scene showing a physician taking…
Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617, artist
Allegorical figure of the physician as the devil standing among books and tools of the medical professions. Interior view, two scenes: the patients have recovered fully and the physician has come to collect his fee.
1 print : 18 x 23 cm.
engraving
1 print : 18 x 23 cm.
engraving