Concept
Impostors and imposture
Images
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A man dressed in costume as a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Line engraving.
Reference: 20529i
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a carriage to a crowd of people on the Pont-Neuf, Paris. Process print after G. de Saint-Aubin.
Reference: 20594i- Books
Hoaxes and deceptions / by the editors of Time-Life Books.
Date: 1991
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A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.
Reference: 20671i- Books
Imagining monsters : miscreations of the self in eighteenth-century England / Dennis Todd.
Todd, Dennis, 1944-Date: 1995