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  • A physician writing a prescription for a sick young woman. Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
  • A physician receiving a glass from a female servant while visiting a young female patient who is in bed. Coloured lithograph by P.H.L. Van der Meulen after J. Steen.
  • A medical practitioner examining the urine and taking the pulse of an elderly man. Oil painting by a follower of Jan Steen.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse. Oil painting by a follower of Jan Havickz. Steen.
  • A surgeon removing "pierres de tête". Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • A physician writing a prescription for a sick young woman. Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • A physician taking the pulse. Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • A tooth-drawer holding up a tooth he has just extracted on stage to try and sell his skills; his two companions are treating a sick man. Etching after J. Steen (?).
  • A physician taking a young woman's pulse, her mother is standing behind them, a basket for a urine flask is on the floor. Collotype after J. Steen.
  • An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker. Mezzotint by J. Wilson, c. 1770, after J. Steen.
  • An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Coloured lithograph by Bouvier, 1830, after J. Steen.
  • A surgeon in his workroom extracting stones from a patients head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Photogravure after J. Steen.
  • A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.
  • A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.
  • A physician writing a prescription for a sick young woman. Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • A family group inside their cottage with a meal being served by the mother and a dog upsetting a cooking pot. Mezzotint after Jan Steen.
  • A family group gathered around a fireside table singing and playing musical instruments. Engraving by Villain after Duchemin after Jan Steen.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Jan Havicksz. Steen.
  • A woman sitting on her bed while dressing herself; a dog sleeps next to her, a pair of shoes are strewn across the floor in front of her, and a musical instrument, skull, book and a flower lay in the doorway to the room. Photogravure after J. Steen, 1663.
  • A surgeon removing "pierres de tête". Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • A surgeon removing "pierres de tête". Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Engraving by J. Boydell, c. 1760, after J. Steen.
  • A young couple wait while a contract of marriage is drawn up and the servant waits to take the stop out of the barrel. Engraving by Jean-Charles Baquoy after Jan Steen.
  • A physician taking the pulse. Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • A surgeon removing "pierres de tête". Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • A physician taking the pulse. Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • A medical practitioner examining the urine and taking the pulse of an elderly man. Oil painting by a follower of Jan Steen.
  • A family group of musicians with three members playing instruments and others listening and looking on. Etching by Henri Lefort after Jan Steen.
  • An apothecary sells tablets to the King and Queen of the Netherlands the 'socialist epidemic' ostensibly sweeping through Europe. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1890.