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The Duke of Wellington and his ministers recoil in horror from the shrouded ghost of George Canning who points to the catholic bill on the table. Lithograph 1829.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: Nov 1829Reference: 651165i
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Women wearing enormously large bonnets get stuck in a variety of situations. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1828.
Date: May 20th 1828Reference: 35266i
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The Duke of Wellington holds up a puppet of Lord Brougham and pulls a string to operate his limbs. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: March 1843Reference: 37159iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
Two scenes: a group of men and women men wrestling; and two men sing and dance with a woman. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 1834Reference: 643208i
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A decrepit man screaming in pain from gout, rheumatism and catarrh; represented as three tormenting devils. Coloured etching by J. Cawse, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 27 January 1809Reference: 11890i
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Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.

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English commerce is shown as a cow milked by the Dutch, the horns sawn off by the Americans and its milk drunk by the French and the Spanish, while an Englishman wrings his hands at this distressing sight. Etching, ca. 1780.
Date: [1780?]Reference: 42559i
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Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.
Combe, William, 1742-1823.Reference: 12086i
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A man pulling a peculiar face as he is about to take some medicine. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1801, after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [20 March 1801]Reference: 12066i
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A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.Date: 1 August 1835Reference: 11869i
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Four men sit round a tax collector and blow smoke in his face. Coloured aquatint,by J.C. Ziegler, 1799, after R. Newton.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Date: 1799Reference: 24852i
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A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 14 May 1799Reference: 10507i
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A physician and a nurse discuss the recent death of a patient: the physician instinctively resorts to blaming the patient for non-compliance in following the prescribed dosage. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1840.
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879.Date: [1840]Reference: 652988iPart of: Emotions parisiennes
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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- Pictures
The performance of a play representing the Dutch share price boom of 1720: Bombario blows bubbles before Princess Quinquenpoix. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812285iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A funeral procession of politicians bearing the coffin of the 1765 Stamp Act to its tomb in the docks where American trade was carried out. Engraving after B. Wilson, 1766.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: [18 March 1766?]Reference: 582581i
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A lunatic in a barred cell imagines himself to be a leading actor in a melodrama. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
Busby, Thomas Lord.Date: [1826?]Reference: 726148iPart of: Busby's humorous etchings.
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An itinerant medicine vendor in England selling his wares inside a country inn. Coloured etching by T. Illman.
Date: [1820?]Reference: 20932i
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Lord Stanley holds open the door of a coach to Sir Francis Burdett with Sir Robert Peel as the driver. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1837.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 24 May 1837Reference: 36634iPart of: HB sketches
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Lord John Russell, leader of the House, dressed as a shepherdess, sits crying; in the background, across from a stretch of water inscribed "Irish channel" are a flock of sheep and a ram with the head of Daniel O'Connell. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 27 December 1836Reference: 36631iPart of: HB sketches
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An interior of a games room: anthropomorphic figures playing, drinking, and smoking. Colour lithograph.
Reference: 11742i
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Animals dressed as doctors are about to vivisect a man in an operating theatre or anatomy theatre. Colour lithograph, ca. 1910.
Date: 1910Reference: 577237iPart of: Unsere Ärzte: various medical caricatures.
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A hairdresser powdering a wig on a stand. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès de Villers.
Traviès de Villers, Charles Joseph, 1804-1859.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 29540i
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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 Lancashire burglar, dressed in rags and smoking a pipe, with his dog, represented as a supporter of the Conservative Party. Lithograph (?), March 1880.
Date: March 1880Reference: 568613iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.