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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with several assistants, selling their wares to a small audience in Rome. Etching by W. Unger after D. Helmbreker.

Itinerant actors performing on stage in Rome an attempt to sell medicines to local people. Etching by A. Chataignier and engraving by C. Niquet, the elder, 1818, after J. Swebach-Desfontaines after K. Dujardin, 1687.

The actor Guillot-Gorju in character as Scaramouche, in a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Coloured etching by A.E. Guillaumot, 1885, after J. Falck.

Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching by J. Callot.

Commedia dell'arte characters are raising a balloon by having it pulled by horses. Coloured etching, ca. 1785.

An itinerant medicine vendor in Rome. Oil painting after Karel Dujardin (?).

A group of itinerant actors performing on stage in an attempt to sell medicines to a small group of people. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu, 1772, after K. Dujardin, 1687.

Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching after J. Callot.

A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.

Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers performing together. Etching by J. Callot.

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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with several assistants, selling their wares to a small audience in Rome. Etching by W. Unger after D. Helmbreker.

Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching by J. Callot.

Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers performing together. Etching by J. Callot.

An itinerant medicine vendor in Rome. Oil painting after Karel Dujardin (?).