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The countess's levee: a barber dresses her hair while she converses with Silvertongue, her lawyer. Engraving by Simon François Ravenet after W. Hogarth, 1745.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [1745]Reference: 38356iPart of: Marriage a-la-mode- Pictures
A dishevelled nurse with her disgruntled patient. Coloured lithograph by W. Hunt.
Hunt, W, active 1825.Reference: 11736i- Pictures
A man suffering from indigestion; suggested by little characters and demons tormenting him. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after A. Crowquill.
Crowquill, Alfred.Date: [1 August 1835]Reference: 10744i- Pictures
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A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
Date: 1700Reference: 45047i- Pictures
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A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 10741i- Pictures
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A young man declines the offer of a mother to play Blind Man's Buff with her four daughters. Coloured lithograph.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 33613i- Pictures
Abraham Francen, apothecary, seated by a window, gazing at a print or drawing. Etching by or after Rembrandt.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Reference: 33523i- Pictures
A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.Date: 12 February 1819Reference: 10742i- Pictures
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A nurse attempts to wake up one of her patients who has just died. Wood engraving by G. King, 1906.
King, Gunning.Date: 1906Reference: 15346i- Pictures
A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat, the terrified patient looks on. Aquatint by F. Jukes, 1803, after S. Collings.
Collings, Samuel.Date: 1 February 1803Reference: 11212i- Pictures
A man in pain receiving medicines from a housemaid. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 2065026i- Pictures
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A bemused husband querying a doctor as to how his wife of only six months can have already given birth to a child. Wood engraving, 1838.
Date: 1838Reference: 11190iPart of: Actors by gaslight- Pictures
Interior of a surgery with a surgeon treating a wound in the arm of a man, with a boy and five other figures. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
Naiveu, Matthijs, 1647-1721.Date: [1700?]Reference: 45041i- Pictures
Charles Nourrisson, aided by his servant, fakes a news story about his own drowning in the Seine in order to woo Angélique Ganachard. Wood engraving and letterpress, 1859.
Halévy, Léon, 1802-1883.Date: [1859?]Reference: 2491286iPart of: Theâtre contemporain illustré- Pictures
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A gouty man suffering with a painfully enlarged foot; presented by demons prodding it with arrows. Coloured etching, 1814.
Marks, John Lewis.Date: 1814Reference: 10647i- Pictures
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Surgeon Major and Mrs Gunning. Photograph.
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A surgeon applying a plaster with syrup from l'Isle de Candie to a patient's head. Engraving.
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A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
Holden, Albert William, 1848-1932.Date: [1900?]Reference: 45152i- Pictures
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A young sailor has returned to his aged parents after running away to sea. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after Joseph Clark.
Clark, Joseph, 1834-1926.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 27363i- Books
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A catalogue of all the materials of the dwelling-house, out-houses, &c. Of His Grace James Duke of Chandos, deceasd, at his late seat call'd Cannons, near Edgware in Middlesex: divided into such easy sortments, or lots, as to make it agreeable to the publick. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Cock, on Tuesday, the 16th of June 1747, and the eleven following days (at Cannons aforesaid.) The said house, &c. may be view'd every day (Sunday excepted) to the hour of same, which will begin each day at half and hour after eleven precisely, by all persons who shall produce a catalogue of these materials. Catalogues may be had at Grigsby's Coffee-House behind the Royal Exchange; at Mr. Cock's, in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden; at the White Hart, in Watford; the Three Pigeons, in Brentford; and at either of the lodges leading up to Cannons, from Stanmore, or Edgeware. N.B. in the first day's sale will be sold, the gardens and pasture land, round the said house, being freehold, in four lots, containing 415 acres, agreeable to the plan which may be seen at the said house, or at Mr. Cock's, with the conditions of the sale. For Cannons gratis.
Cock, Mr. (Christopher), active 1720-1749.Date: 1747]- Pictures
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A barber about to shave an unwilling client with anthropomorphic participants. Reproduction of a coloured lithograph by Y.G.
Y. G.Reference: 11748i- Pictures
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An elderly land-lady taking a warming-pan to put in her lodgers bed, which is already occupied by someone else. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Reference: 11903iPart of: Notions of the agreeable- Pictures
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A patient suffering perpetual coldness surrounded by perplexed physicians attempting their cures. Coloured soft-ground etching.
Reference: 11646i- Pictures
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A couple sit in a slum dwelling playing a card game; the man is drinking from a tankard and washing is hanging from a line stretched across the room. Wood engraving by E. Landells after H.K. Browne.
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 33355i- Pictures
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An obese man consulting a doctor. Coloured etching.
Reference: 10970i