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A young woman is sitting on a couch next to a physician who is taking her pulse; to her left stands an attendant and behind him an old woman cleans a table. A man sits in a chair at the far end of the couch and has the attention of another…

1 print : 42 x 29 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase, 1967.
Technique:
etching

1 print : 32 x 27 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1966.

1 print : 16 x 14 cm.

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

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…

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…

1 print : etching ; platemark 17.1 x 14.1 cm

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…

1 print : mezzotint, with gouache and watercolour ; platemark 14.9 x 11. cm