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Napoleon Bonaparte instructing the doctor to poison the plague victims at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured aquatint by G. Cruikshank, 1814.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 29 November 1814Reference: 10104i- Pictures
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A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [30 July 1801]Reference: 20936i- Pictures
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A corpulent physician diagnoses more leeches for a young woman, who lies drained and bedbound. Lithograph by P. Numa, c. 1833.
Numa, Pierre, active 1830-1848.Date: 1833Reference: 16555i- Pictures
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Top: Daniel O'Connell as a cock supported by Jewish finance and the Roman Catholic church; below, O'Connell withdrawing from fighting a duel (?). Coloured lithograph by Robert Seymour, 1835.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.Date: [1 December]Reference: 12246i- Pictures
Edward Dubois in the guise of the devil sits at a table cutting up the pages of a book with a knife and fork as flames with demons rise from the floor beneath him and a procession of butchers enters the room by a door on the left. Stipple engraving, 1808.
Date: Sept 12 1808Reference: 603147i- Pictures
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A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.
Nittinger, Carl Georg Gottlob.Date: 1856Reference: 17876i- Pictures
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A figure dressed in a cholera safety suit. Coloured etching after J. Petzl (?), ca. 1832.
Petzl, Josef, 1803-1871.Date: [1832?]Reference: 2083i- Pictures
Vignettes of Peel's first ministry surrounded by eight figures representing certain professions. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
Date: 2 February 1835Reference: 12241i- Pictures
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Physicians expressing their thanks to influenza. Coloured etching attributed to Temple West, 1803.
West, Temple, approximately 1740-1783.Date: April 20th 1803Reference: 4i- Pictures
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A dwarfish alchemist, caricatured because of the vanity of his obsession. Line engraving, c. 1720.
Reference: 17843iPart of: Il Callotto resuscitato- Pictures
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In a railway station, a bearded man who cannot take a seat in the first class carriage is arguing with a ticket controller. Watercolour by G.H. Thompson, ca. 1920.
Thompson, G. H. (George Henry), 1853-1953.Date: 1920Reference: 571920i- Pictures
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William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
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A woman extravagantly equipped to deal with the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the abundance of dubious advice on how to combat cholera. Etching, c. 1832.
Date: 1832Reference: 17848i- Pictures
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Five elderly ladies caricatured as young women performing a sacrifice in a classical tableau. Etching by J. Gillray, 1787.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: May 12th 1787Reference: 36268i- Pictures
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Rivalry between newspapers; caricatured by two men squirting printing ink at one another from either end of a table. Lithograph.
Reference: 12132i- Pictures
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Science: a parody frontispiece to the Penny Magazine, with humorous representations of the "March of intellect" movement. Lithograph by G. Davies, 1832, after C.J. Grant.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 1832Reference: 46967i- Pictures
The Revolutionary General Hoche, playing the guillotine as a stringed instrument, ascends into heaven where the atrocities of the French Revolution greet his arrival. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585511i- Pictures
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A parade of health professionals bearing vaccination syringes, drugs and banners, lined on each side by their victims' graves and topped by the grim reaper, presenting a satirical view of the medical profession. Reproduction of an engraving by Walter Harrison Cady, 1910/1930.
Cady, Harrison, 1877-1970.Date: 1910-1930Reference: 565850i- Pictures
A dandified physician takes the lancet to a turkey, watched over by fashionable women. Coloured etching, 1801.
Date: [1801]Reference: 16161i- Pictures
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A cleric saws through a wooden platform on which are draped the 'Magna Charta' and the 'Bill of Rights' in front of a mill bearing political issues on the wind blades. Engraving.
Date: [1769?]Reference: 582598i- Pictures
The Duke of Cumberland being prosecuted by Richard, Baron Grosvenor, for adultery with Lady Grosvenor. Engraving, ca. 1770.
Date: [1771]Reference: 2489351i- 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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Angelica Catalani as Semiramis in the opera "La morte di Semiramide". Coloured engraving, 1818.
Date: [1818]Reference: 35091i- Pictures
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A cynical doctor describes the contents of his new cough mixture. Coloured lithograph by C. Jacque, 1844.
Jacque, Charles Emile, 1813-1894.Date: [1844]Reference: 16553iPart of: Les malades et les médecins- Pictures
A thin man standing in a bucket with a mop head for hair, and a thin woman with an upturned brush for a head. Etching, 1801, after T. Gearing.
Gearing, J., active 1801.Date: Jany. 5th 1801Reference: 35244i