83 results filtered with: Costume - Great Britain - 18th century
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Richard Dickinson, an eccentric man from Scarborough, who imagines he is a king, sitting with his pet fox and monkey. Engraving by G. Vertue after H. Hysing, 1725.
Hysing, Hans, 1678-1752 or 1753.Date: 1725Reference: 20618i- Pictures
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A quack doctor and a dissenting parson selling their respective goods from a fairground booth. Coloured etching, 1795.
Date: Septr. 3 1795Reference: 46947i- Pictures
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A young woman with folded hands giving thanks to heaven, an older woman points to a crowd carrying a young man wrapped in a blanket. Engraving by W. Sedgwick after E. Penny, 1780.
Penny, Edward, 1714-1791.Date: 1780Reference: 20004i- Pictures
A stout ungainly man undergoing group magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, c. 1792, after S. Collings.
Collings, Samuel.Reference: 11829i- Pictures
A lecherous doctor taking the pulse of an attractive young woman. Mezzotint, 1772.
Date: Published as the Act directs, 16 March 1772Reference: 11199i- Pictures
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A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching R. Newton, 1795, after himself.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Date: 10 February 1795Reference: 11866i- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.
Bobbin, Tim, 1708-1786.Reference: 16541i- Pictures
A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators. Engraving, 1748.
Date: According to Act of Parliamt. 1748Reference: 20666i- Pictures
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A grossly obese man supporting his stomach in a wheelbarrow, a young fop looks on. Etching by S. Ireland, 178-, after J.H. Mortimer.
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779.Date: 1780-1789Reference: 11055i- Pictures
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop arriving at the home of Tristram Shandy, where Mr. Shandy is seated with a friend and smoking. Aquatint by J.H. Clark after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: 1820Reference: 22023i- Pictures
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George Adams demonstrates his electrotherapy machine to a woman and her daughter. Line engraving by J. Lodge, 1799, after T. Milne.
Milne, T., active 1799.Date: 1 May 1799Reference: 17899i- Pictures
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A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 3 March 1736Reference: 544395i- Pictures
A tooth-drawer using a cord to extract a tooth from an agonized patient. Coloured engraving, 1810, after J. Collier, 1773.
Bobbin, Tim, 1708-1786.Date: 4 June 1810Reference: 16544i- Pictures
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Amputations of arm and leg with diagrams to illustrate how to perform the operations. Engraving, 1743.
Date: [1743]Reference: 22442i- Pictures
A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.
Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845.Date: 26 March 1787Reference: 545984i- Pictures
An episode in Tristram Shandy: the widow Wadman wooing Tristram's uncle Toby. Etching after L. Sterne.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 651159iPart of: Twelve prints representing the most interesting sentimental and humorous scenes in Tristram Shandy- Pictures
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An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1735.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1735Reference: 20045i- Pictures
An episode in Tristram Shandy: the widow Wadman wooing Tristram's uncle Toby. Aquatint by J.H. Clark after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: 1820Reference: 651154i- Pictures
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A doctor and footman hurling pudding at each other in an attempt to make the obese patient laugh in order to cure his quinsey. Coloured engraving by R. Newton, 1797.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Date: 10 August 1797Reference: 10971i- Pictures
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A quack doctor treating her patient's chilblains. Engraving after H.B. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 26 December 1782Reference: 11814i- Pictures
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A man of occult learning arrives at the house of a cobbler and his wife: the cobbler insults him, the wife defends him. Coloured engraving by L. Truchy after F. Hayman.
Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776.Date: [1743?]Reference: 22165i- Pictures
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A young physician taking the pulse of a woman with whom he is flirting, a young man passing by raises his hat. Colour stipple engraving by J. Parker, 1783, after J. Northcote.
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.Date: [1783]Reference: 21778i- Pictures
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A young man, in the presence of his father, is examined by an academic for admission to university. Etching by J. Williams, 1772, after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: Accor. to Act 10 June 1772Reference: 10783i- Pictures
Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine vendor, dressed in theatrical costume while selling his wares, assisted by another costumed person and a monkey. Engraving by I.R. Cruikshank after a Delft plate by B.S., 1750.
S., B., active 1750.Date: 1750Reference: 20586i- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a stage to a large audience in a town square. Engraving.
Reference: 20641i