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A young man declines the offer of a mother to play Blind Man's Buff with her four daughters. Coloured lithograph.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 33613i
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People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Date: 1827Reference: 138i
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A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (?), c. 1905.
Culiale.Date: c. 1905Reference: 17164i
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A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 1732-1806.Reference: 16023i
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A doctor asking a dealer about horses, the dealer retorts that like doctors you can buy horses at many different prices. Wood engraving by WIH, 1892.
H., W. I., active 1893.Date: 1892Reference: 14300i
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A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.
Date: [ca. 1984?]Reference: 2059398i
Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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A dentist examining the teeth of a nervous patient, with extractor hidden behind his back. Color process print after A.R.
Reference: 16773i
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An aggressive colonel barging his way into a doctor's consulting-room demanding to have his liver inspected. Reproduction after a drawing by G.L. Stampa, 1926.
Stampa, G. L. (George Loraine), 1875-1951.Date: 1926Reference: 15464i
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A Greenwich Pensioner, with a pipe in one hand and a stick in the other, being rolled out of a sheet [hammock?] by a sailor. Wood engraving by J. Jackson.
Reference: 32360i
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A troupe of blind musicians and their dogs confronting a rival street musician and his dog. Lithograph by Engelmann after S. Baptiste, 1828.
Baptiste, Sylvestre, 1791-1859.Date: 1828Reference: 16519i
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A barber shaving a man in his shop. Etching, 1804.
Date: 25 June 1804Reference: 30251i
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Forty five different scenes telling the tale of a man with toothache, his various attempts at trying to cure himself and the final recourse to the dentist. Wood engraving by G. Cruikshank after H. Mayhew.
Mayhew, Horace, 1816-1872.Reference: 16690i
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A reluctant girl sits down in the dentist's chair. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Thomas, 1920.
Thomas, Bert, 1883-1966.Date: 1920Reference: 15415i
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A woman abalone diver wrestling with an octopus. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoshi, 1870s.
Taiso, Yoshitoshi, 1839-1892.Date: [between 1870 and 1879]Reference: 37766i
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Two men are using a plank over a large log as a see-saw; representing the mechanics of levers. Engraving.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 36106i
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A young man puts his head through the window of a barber's shop where glass has been replaced by paper; the barber inside responds by putting his head through another paper pane: a man and two women walk by. Coloured etching by A. Mills, 1806.
Mills, Alfred, 1776-1833.Date: 2 January 1806Reference: 29643i
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A medical consultation while a patient dies; a group of soldiers with a family; men in an artist's loft. Coloured lithograph c. 1840.
Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 16496i
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A tired and drunk doctor attending a patient, after being called away from a bridge game at a social event. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1874.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1874Reference: 15667i
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The court of the jackal raja. Watercolour drawing c. 1870.
Reference: 26724i
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Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1892Reference: 14295i
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A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at a drunken dinner table and two bedridden patients with some meagre chips. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965.Date: 1916Reference: 24110i
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A smoker with huge head exhales cigar smoke which forms the words "try one". Coloured lithograph, c. 1879, after T. Worth.
Worth, Thomas, 1839-Date: 1879Reference: 25447i
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A doctor informs his patient's mother-in-law that he may need to resort to tapping - she misunderstands him as meaning tapping alcohol. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1880Reference: 14277i
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A naked woman lies stretched out on the doctor's couch; she has swallowed a two sou piece; with two other scenes. Photomechanical reproduction, 1910.
Barn, Théophile.Date: July 1910Reference: 17284i
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A man looking through a magnifying glass at a picture of a monkey, whose flatulence extinguishes the flame of a candle; representing the pleasures of the sense of sight. Engraving, 17--.
Reference: 27128i