"Direct selling." | Search | Wellcome Collection

Formats

Dates

Fromto

Locations

Closed stores (101)
Online (64)

Subjects

Types/Techniques

Contributors

Languages

Submit

Active filters:

Pictures Digital Images Reset filters

103 results

Sort by:
Sort order:

Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares at a country market, assisted by a woman. Colour stipple engraving by L.-M. Bonnet after J.-P. Caresme.
Caresme, Jacques-Philippe, 1734-1796.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 21034i
Pictures
Online
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 (?).
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Reference: 20489i
Pictures
Online
Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd. Engraving.
Reference: 20635i
Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with several assistants, selling their wares to a small audience in Rome. Etching by W. Unger after D. Helmbreker.
Helmbreker, Dirk, 1633-1696.Reference: 20514i
Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating his wares on a puzzled man in front of an audience, in the background the man's wife is counting out the fee. Process print, 1931, after J. Victors.
Victors, Jan, 1619-1676.Date: 1931Reference: 20484i
Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares as part of a performance on stage, at a gigantic travelling country fair known as the Fiera dell' Impruneta. Etching by J. Callot.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Reference: 20443i
Pictures
Online
A theatrical itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage to a crowd, assisted by an elaborately dressed man and an owl. Coloured etching.
Reference: 20911i
Pictures
Online
A bustling country fair full of stalls of people selling their wares. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1788, after A. Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: 1788Reference: 20505i
Pictures
Online
An itinerant medicine salesman performing his sales pitch on stage to a small group of people. Coloured etching.
Reference: 20600i
Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor proudly presenting his wares to a small group of people. Line engraving by J. van de Velde after W. Buytewech.
Buytewech, Willem Pietersz, 1591 or 1592-1624.Reference: 20470i
Pictures
Doctor Humbugallo, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares from a stage with an assistant dressed as a court fool. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 20633i
Pictures
Online
An auctioneer selling fish from a platform to an excited audience, at Billingsgate Market. Coloured crayon-manner lithograph by M. Prior, 1870.
Prior, Melton, 1845-1910.Date: 1870Reference: 21038i
Pictures
Online
An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with two assistants and a monkey, selling his wares to an excitable crowd. Coloured wood engraving by J. Oortman.
Reference: 20933i
Pictures
Piazza Navona, Rome. Line engraving by P. Ruga.
Date: [1830?]Reference: 2958304i
Pictures
Doctor Bossy, a medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Pencil drawing after A. van Assen.
Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.Reference: 20574i
Pictures
Online
Itinerant actors performing on stage in Rome an attempt to sell medicines to local people. Etching by A. Chataignier and engraving by C. Niquet, the elder, 1818, after J. Swebach-Desfontaines after K. Dujardin, 1687.
Dujardin, Karel, 1622-1678Date: 1818Reference: 20593i
Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares to a small group of country people. Engraving by W. French after G. Dou.
Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675.Reference: 20491i
Pictures
Online
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a carriage to a crowd of people on the Pont-Neuf, Paris. Process print after G. de Saint-Aubin.
Reference: 20594i
Pictures
Online
A public square in a French port, in which a medicine vendor cries up his wares to an audience of traders and strollers. Coloured aquatint by J. Léveillé, 1785, after A. Borel.
Borel, Antoine, 1743-1810.Date: [1785]Reference: 811674i
Pictures
An itinerant salesman selling amulets against the bites of snakes and other animals to a crowd of people who purchase them eagerly. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1815.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1815Reference: 20943i
Pictures
Online
Doctor Bossy, an infamous medicine vendor performing on stage to a crowd at Tower Hill in an attempt to sell his wares. Etching.
Reference: 20576i
Pictures
Online
An elaborately dressed medicine vendor selling his wares from a stage to an audience, he points to a member of the crowd whose appearence suggests he is a doctor. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819.
Date: 1819Reference: 20946i
Pictures
Doctor Bossy, an infamous medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Etching, 1795, after A. van Assen.
Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.Date: 1 September 1795Reference: 20575i
Pictures
Online
Dr Dulcamara, played by L. Lablache, sells a love philtre to Nemorino played by G. Mario at a country fair. Coloured lithograph by C. Vogt after A. de Valentini.
Valentini, Alexandre de, active 1814.Date: [1835?-1840]Reference: 22168i
Pictures
Online
A Chinese apothecary carrying medicines in a basket. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley after Pu-Quà, 1799.
Pu-Qúa.Date: 4 May 1799Reference: 579681i