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Images about Medicine shows

29 images from works
  • An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • A travelling procession of health officials who ironically praise the coming of vaccination. Etching.
  • Itinerant medicine vendors in Rome. Oil painting attributed to Dirk Helmbreker.
  • A procession of health officials ironically proclaiming the coming of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • A medicine show; a moustachioed charlatan holds up a phial, a miserable patient sits in the carriage and a black man in uniform bangs the drums. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison.
  • Doctor Bossy, an infamous medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Etching, 1795, after A. van Assen.
  • Crowds of people are gathered for a fete, a stage has been set up and actors are performing a play. Engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1777, after M. Schoevaerdts.
  • Glysterpipe Fillpacket, Peregrino Mountebanko and Timothy Mouth: three dwarfs as itinerant medicine vendors selling their wares. Engraving.
  • Doctor Bossy, a medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Pencil drawing after A. van Assen.
  • 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.
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Selling - Drugs
Direct selling
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