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Adolphe Thiers and Léon Gambetta as physicians conferring by the screened-off bed of a patient representing the Second Empire (?). Colour line block by Lefman after A. Gill, 1874.
Gill, André, 1840-1885.Date: 28 Juin 1874Reference: 657693i- Pictures
Colonel Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau kicking a military veteran who has lost both legs. Colour line block by Lefman after A. Gill, 1872.
Gill, André, 1840-1885.Date: 16 Juin 1872Reference: 657721i- Pictures
Napoleon III being tried by skeleton lawyers for the deaths of French soldiers in the Franco-Prussian War. Colour line block by Lefman after A. Gill, 1871.
Gill, André, 1840-1885.Date: 5 Novembre 1871Reference: 657955i- Books
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The scots scourge; being a compleat supplement to the British antidote to Caledonian poison: in two volumes. Containing fifty-two anti-ministerial, political, satiric, and comic prints, during Lord Bute's administration, down to the present time: To which are added, All the Original Songs, Essays, &c. &c. The whole being a grand system of Scotch politicks, which have been acted in Old England, &c. during those remarkable years 1763 and 1764. ... . Contains Twenty-Five Copper Plates, and is adorned with a Metzotinto Head of the Duke of Newcastle, and a Head of Earl Temple. 1. Sawney below stairs. 2. Ayliffe's Ghost. 3. The scrubbing-post. 4. John Bull's Auction. 5. Roasted Exciseman. 6. Daniel in the Den. 7. Daniel's Delivery. 8. Devil to pay. 9. Game of Hum. 10. State Racers. 11. Places of Profit. 12. - of Honour. 13. Tame Lion. 14. Bob-Cherry. 15. Safe Place. 16. J. Wilkes, Esq; and Liberty. 17. Sign Post. 18. The Snug Post. 19. The Whipping Post. 20. Macbeth and the Dr. 21. The Cold Place. 22. The Warm Place. 23. The General Post. 24. Hieroglyphical Epistle from the Devil to L. B- To which is given, a Humorous Political Key to all the Prints.
Pridden, John, 1728-1807.Date: [1765?]- Books
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Remarks on the Jacobiniad: revised and corrected by the author. Part second. [Eight lines of verse]
Gardiner, John Sylvester John, 1765-1830.Date: 1798- Pictures
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A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: June 1871Reference: 18167i- Pictures
The game of goose applied to the life of king Henri IV and the Bourbon restoration. Engraving, 1816.
Date: [1816]Reference: 2969770i- Pictures
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A politician out canvassing curses himself for climbing six floors to the room of an impoverished mother and her young offspring, none of whom are electorally valuable. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938.Reference: 17019i- 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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An eye specialist (Monsieur Macaire) trying to convince a patient to spend more money on treatment. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier after C. Philipon.
Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862.Date: 1830-1839Reference: 16369i- Pictures
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A man is treated to a cascade of water in the name of hydropathy. Lithograph by C. Jacque, 1843.
Jacque, Charles Emile, 1813-1894.Date: 1843Reference: 16538iPart of: Les malades et les médecins- Pictures
A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
Reference: 12160i- Books
Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761-1845 : le peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe / Étienne Bréton et Pascal Zuber, assistés par Annie Yacob ; avant-propos par Jean Tulard de l'Institut ; préface par Jacques Foucart.
Date: [2019]- Pictures
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The financier Jules Mirès as a barber about to shave an old man representing the old city of Marseilles. Wood engraving by J.-B. E. Diolot.
Date: 1850-1859Reference: 35797i- Pictures
Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoleon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1803.
Date: 26 [month?] 1803Reference: 12205i- Pictures
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Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
Marais, Maurice, 1852-Date: 23 January 1897Reference: 16999i- Pictures
A pharmacist (Louis Phillippe) making up a prescription for a seated lady, surrounded by figures in apothecary jars; representing members of the French government and various political matters. Lithograph by J.I. Grandville, 1832.
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.Date: [1832]Reference: 16136i- Pictures
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.
Reference: 16919i- Pictures
N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: [26 February 1811]Reference: 16635i- Pictures
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A jack-boot stands on top of a truncated obelisk enclosed within a triangular gibbet from which hang a fox and a goose from garlands; representing the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Etching, 1763.
Date: [Feb 10 1763]Reference: 581173i- Pictures
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Napoleon as Emperor addressing the Senate on the glory of France and other matters. Coloured etching by Charles Williams, 1813.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 1 December 1813Reference: 38440i- Pictures
A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.
Sneyd, John.Date: 14 March 1803Reference: 12191i- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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A man absurdly well-prepared for the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the overabundance of questionable remedies and protections against cholera. Etching, c. 1832.
Date: c. 1832Reference: 17849i- Pictures
Edmund Burke, arguing in favour of control of immigration from France, points towards the dagger he has just thrown on the floor of the House of Commons; William Pitt the younger and Henry Dundas are seated on the Treasury bench, while Charles James Fox, R.B. Sheridan and M.A. Taylor look on with alarm. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585500i