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  • Isaac Swainson promoting his 'Velnos syrup', facing an onslaught of rival practitioners advocating mercury. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1789.
  • A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
  • Isaac Swainson promoting his 'Velnos syrup', facing an onslaught of rival practitioners advocating mercury. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1789.
  • N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • A man in pain receiving medicines from a housemaid. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
  • A blind man walks in Covent Garden, begging for money with hat and placard, stops at two ladies, one who gives him money, meanwhile a young fop helps a lady from a carriage. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, c. 1802.
  • A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • The dance of death: the vision of skulls. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A man has fallen asleep as a young woman plays the piano. Etching and aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson after himself, 1784.
  • Hordes of infirm people with crutches and wheelchairs making their way down the hill to Bath from the Royal Crescent. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • The dance of death: the family and children. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A woman dying in the arms of her family, an unhappy doctor leaves the room realising that it is his final payment. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1786.
  • A penny-barber preparing to shave a seated customer who is being lathered with a large brush by a boy assistant, in the background another barber shaves another customer. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • The dance of death: the wedding. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A chemist and his assistant as "puffers" heating a substance in a retort; representing a theatre critic who "puffs" the actor Joseph Holman at the bidding of his editor. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson, ca. 1786.
  • The dance of death: the last stage. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Doctor Humbugallo, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares from a stage with an assistant dressed as a court fool. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
  • Doctor Humbugallo, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares from a stage with an assistant dressed as a court fool. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
  • A man sitting in a chair, reading a document to another man who holds his hat in his lap. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • The dance of death: the honeymoon. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Death's triumph over a much loved family man; illustrated by a skeletal death figure pulling the hair of the retreating doctor. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1814, after himself.
  • The dance of death: the apothecary. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A gouty man seeking comfort in licentious surroundings. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1785.
  • A doctor meeting a patient, a woman pours a chamber-pot into the street. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1789.
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
  • Hordes of infirm people with crutches and wheelchairs making their way down the hill to Bath from the Royal Crescent. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson.
  • A lecherous doctor taking the pulse of an old woman while fondling a young one. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.