A travelling healer demonstrating the extraction of a tooth from the mouth of a woman patient, before a crowd of onlookers. Etching attributed to Cornelis de Wael.

Two men wearing turbans standing in a harbour converse with a sailor while sailors and captives are seated on the ground. Etching by M. Schaep, 1649, after C. de Wael.

A man riding on a horse which is pulling a wagon loaded with masonry, while another man attempts to keep the wagon steady. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir Peter Paul Rubens.

A barber's shop in which men demonstrate the sense of sight. Etching by W. Peeters after C. de Wael.

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