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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 19.9 x 16 cm

Four men and a woman smoking and drinking in an arbour and listening to a travelling hurdy-gurdy player. Etching by R. Daudet, 1787, after C. Dusart.

An old woman picking fleas from a man's head, behind them a man holds up a jug and in the background a dwarf preparing food looks on. Etching after C. Dusart.

In the middle of the scene, a seated peasant shows by his screams the sharp pain which is being caused to him by a country surgeon who is probing a wound in his arm. A woman standing in the background to left shows her sympathy by clasping her hands (translated from Bartsch's description)

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 28.5 x 24.5 cm

A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.

1 print : mezzotint ; image 25.2 x 20.4 cm

A wizened old barber who wears a pointed hat is shaving a young man. Mezzotint by C. Dusart.

In the middle of the print, a seated peasant shows by his screams the sharp pain which is being caused to him by a country surgeon who is probing a wound in his arm. A woman standing in the background to right shows her sympathy by clasping her hands (adapted from Bartsch's description)

A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.

In the middle of the print, a seated peasant shows by his screams the sharp pain which is being caused to him by a country surgeon who is probing a wound in his arm. A woman standing in the background to left shows her sympathy by clasping her hands (translated from Bartsch's description)

Four men smoking and drinking round a table outside a country tavern. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after C. Dusart.

The interior of a room. On the right a seated woman stretches out her right foot, to which an old woman applies a cupping glass. The old woman has spectacles on her nose and a funnel on her head. Behind her, almost on the middle of the floor, a fat man sharpens a surgical instrument (translation of Bartsch's description)

1 print : etching ; platemark 26.2 x 18 cm

A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.

1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 25.5 x 18.5 cm

A wizened old barber who wears a pointed hat is shaving a young man. Mezzotint by J. Gole after C. Dusart, 1704/1737.

A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 71 x 54.5 cm

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Four men and a woman smoking and drinking in an arbour and listening to a travelling hurdy-gurdy player. Etching by R. Daudet, 1787, after C. Dusart.

An old woman picking fleas from a man's head, behind them a man holds up a jug and in the background a dwarf preparing food looks on. Etching after C. Dusart.

A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.

A wizened old barber who wears a pointed hat is shaving a young man. Mezzotint by C. Dusart.

A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.

A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.

Four men smoking and drinking round a table outside a country tavern. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after C. Dusart.

A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.

A wizened old barber who wears a pointed hat is shaving a young man. Mezzotint by J. Gole after C. Dusart, 1704/1737.

A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.

A surgeon attending to a man's arm. Oil painting, ca. 1900, after Cornelis Dusart.

A young woman sits drinking in an arbor as a man prepares to smoke at the table beside her. Etching by C. Dusart, 1694.

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Four men and a woman smoking and drinking in an arbour and listening to a travelling hurdy-gurdy player. Etching by R. Daudet, 1787, after C. Dusart.

An old woman picking fleas from a man's head, behind them a man holds up a jug and in the background a dwarf preparing food looks on. Etching after C. Dusart.

A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.

A wizened old barber who wears a pointed hat is shaving a young man. Mezzotint by C. Dusart.

A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.

A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.

Four men smoking and drinking round a table outside a country tavern. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after C. Dusart.

A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.

A wizened old barber who wears a pointed hat is shaving a young man. Mezzotint by J. Gole after C. Dusart, 1704/1737.

A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.

A surgeon attending to a man's arm. Oil painting, ca. 1900, after Cornelis Dusart.

A young woman sits drinking in an arbor as a man prepares to smoke at the table beside her. Etching by C. Dusart, 1694.

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